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Well, i'll just tell about my personal experience. I use uucp in my litle LAN (TCP/IP-based, of course), and when i copy something from source machine to target machine using uucp, short after that it is done.
Yes, uucp over loopback is going to be a wee bit faster than uucp over dialup.
Probably 10-100x faster than most high-speed, even. Like anything else it's only as fast as the cable it runs on, so unless you have some sort of high-bandwidth connection that's inexplicably not already an internet connection
* it's not going to be much help to improving your access to the rest of the world.
* Quite a few such networks have been repurposed as internet WANs these days. Cable TV networks often offer internet access over their cables, telephone companies extending their service to offer high-speed internet, etc, etc. The point is a medium has to exist to use uucp with.