[70347] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WAN transfer rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vincent J. Bono)
Tue May 11 09:50:54 2004
From: "Vincent J. Bono" <vbono@vinny.org>
To: "\"Jeff Nelson\"" <jnelson@rackspace.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:50:08 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
A nifty graph that I have found to be fairly accurate is at a little way
down the page.
http://www.atlantateleport.com/Services/TCP_IP_Via_Satellite/tcp_ip_via_satellite.htm
And an intensive whitepaper at:
http://public.lanl.gov/radiant/pubs/drs/hpdc2002.pdf
Hope this helps.
-v
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Nelson" <jnelson@rackspace.com>
> To: <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:24 AM
> Subject: WAN transfer rates
>
>
> >
> > Possibly someone in this forum with a better understanding of tcp/ip can
> > articulate this better than I....
> >
> > I realize that transfer rates across the Internet diminish significantly
> > with latency, but what's the good answer for someone shrunk down to
> > <10Mbps when the smallest pipe between them is 100Mbps and latency is
> > <40ms?
> >
> > Does anyone have reference to any study done in this area? I'm sure
> > window tuning can alter this, but I'm interested in average statistics.
> >
> > Any reference would be appreciated.
> >
> > thanks,
> > jeff
> >
> >
> >
>
