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Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

  • From: Majdi S. Abbas
  • Date: Sat Mar 08 00:35:01 2003 
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:57:22PM -0500, Eric Germann wrote:
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/07/speed.record/index.html
> 
> Comments folks?

	"Given enough thrust, pigs fly just fine...demonstrated by
	 a professional driver on a closed track, please do not try
	 this at home kids!"

	Sure, given a link you don't have to share with production
traffic and a lot of charity, it's possible to get TCP to do a lot
of things.  This doesn't make them a good idea (outside of those
`special' environments.)

	On the other hand, if you have the need for this kind of
single stream performance, and the pipe to yourself, why not 
devise your own protocol with less overhead?

	--msa