North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Questions about Internet Packet Losses
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > On Web throughput, since so many TCP connections are involved? > > The Web is actually a major source of the problem. It was not very well > designed, protocol-wise. It causes rapid transient congestion. > > > How big a problem is HTTP's opening of so many TCP connections? > > It is a terrible problem. There is no time for the congestion and round > trip estimation algorithms to kick in, as each connection is so short. > > But, HTTP is being fixed. Assuming HTTP traffic is 50%-60% of data traffic on the Internet, how much of a win will we get once streaming HTTP comes along? Hank Nussbacher - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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