net neutrality and peering wars continue

Sat Jun 22 15:34:59 UTC 2013

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>> That's easily solved by padding the ACK to 1500 bytes as well.
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>> Matt
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> Or indeed by the media player sending large amounts of traffic back to the CDN via auxiliary HTTP POST requests?
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> Neil
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That would assume that the client has symmetrical upstream bandwidth over which to send such datagrams. At least in the US, that is the exception, not the rule.

Owen