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Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Israel)
Fri Mar 7 15:56:39 2003
From: Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:55:41 -0500
To: Steve Goldstein <Steve.Goldstein@cox.net>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>, ekgermann@cctec.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ... (Steve Goldstein)
Reply-To: davei@algx.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 3/7/2003 at 15:50:40 -0500, Steve Goldstein said:
> At 8:34 PM +0000 3/7/03, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> >So whats good about this?
>
> 923 Mbps with TCP. --S
According to CNN:
"Scientists were able to get 93 percent efficiency out of their
record-setting connection because they didn't have to share bandwidth,
they received donated equipment in excess of $1 million and they
changed the setting of Internet protocols to allow faster data
transfers, Newman said."
So, you turn down/off all the parts of TCP that allow you to share
bandwidth properly, crank up the window and packet sizes, and
suddenly, TCP is pretty damn efficient for a one-way transfer.
There's no real "science" here. This is a geek publicity stunt.
-Dave
