[119778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FTTH Active vs Passive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue Dec 1 15:19:07 2009
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:15:03 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: James Bensley <jwbensley@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3c857e1c0912011207g1bf7957ar1bc8f920ce89ab44@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:07:42PM +0000, James Bensley wrote:
> I'm wondering why despite all this comparatively magical speed
> increase we have seen over the last decade, with 10 times better on
> the horizon, we the customer ever get a 1:1 speed ratio?
speed kills...
actually, the killer here is PMTU... there is almost no
way to effectively utilize the BW when the MTU is locked to
1500 bytes.
--bill
>
> --
> Regards,
> James ;)
>
> Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find
> myself loving dogs." -
> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html
