[89693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. DREGER)
Sat Apr 1 14:32:05 2006
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 19:30:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0604011354340.1846@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
JL> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:02:13 -0500 (EST)
JL> From: Jon Lewis
JL> Maybe they meant that the typical end-user windows IP stack has small enough
JL> TCP windows that when you take into account typical latency across the
JL> internet, those users just can't utilize their high bandwidth links due to
JL> the bandwidth * delay product.
I wondered the same at first, but that's hardly "the backbone". And TCP
windowing affects single TCP streams... with bittorrent and similar,
people have found workarounds.
Eddy
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