[15213] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Feb 9 19:36:51 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 19:15:37 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980209102452.009badf0@shultz.argon.com>; from Frank Kastenholz <kasten@argon.com> on Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 10:24:52AM -0500
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 10:24:52AM -0500, Frank Kastenholz wrote:
> At 12:36 AM 2/8/98 -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> >By loading the images in parallel, with the initial part of the image files
> >being a fuzzy approximation, you get to see about where every button is
> >located, and in many cases you know exactly what it is, and you can click
> >on them as soon as you know where to go.
>
> things like buttons tend to be very very small.
> the connections never really get out of slowstart.
> loading them all in parallel would help, somewhat,
> to fully utilize the b*d of the path. but it isn't
> very adaptive. better would be to use a single connection
> to load all the images. the tcp will rather quickly settle
> on the 'best' bandwidth of the link and your overall
> throughput will then be optimal.
But, as has been noted, loading things in parallel is a user interface
issue (I'm tempted to substitute the word requirement, there... :-)
Can we move this over to NODlist@nodewarrior.net, folks, before we piss
off Randy, John, and Paul?
Cheers,
-- jra
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