[9794] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP-NG Server & Client Mechanisms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Wed Feb 21 16:47:56 1996
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:35:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: BearHeart / Bill Weinman <bearheart@bearnet.com>
Cc: hartill@lanl.gov, ashishk@wankel.me.cmu.edu, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960221173519.007077e4@204.145.225.20>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, BearHeart / Bill Weinman wrote:
> At 11:32 pm 2/20/96 MST, Rob Hartill spake:
> >There are far too many reports which tell us how well a client talks
> >to a server that is only a few feet away... not much help unless
>
> I'm confused. What does this have to do with client performance?
>
The issues here is not client performance so much as protocol
performance (which is often reflected in percieved client performance).
Measuring performance on a LAN often gives no indication as to how a
protocol performance will perform over a Wide Area network with vastly
inferior RTT, bandwidth, and congestion characteristics. That's why all
the HTTP-NG measurements made so far have taken place over trans and
intercontinental distances (sort of like LANL's usual tests :-)
Just because it works on an ethernet on Castro Street doesn't mean
it'll work on the internet.
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