Network is a major part of a database infrastructure. However, often performance benchmarks are done on a local machine, where a client and a server are collocated – I am guilty myself. This is done to simplify the setup and to exclude one more variable (the networking part), but with this we also miss looking [&]

https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/02/19/how-network-bandwidth-affects-mysql-performance/