why upload with adsl is faster than 100M ethernet ?

Joe Shen joe_hznm at yahoo.com.sg
Tue Nov 2 02:15:31 UTC 2004


Thanks.

I've done the experiments. The reason is: the 100Mbps
ethernet is so fast that it could fill the buffer of
bottleneck link very quickly ( Path_mtu, burstness of
traffic). There may also exist ACK compression in
reverse path .

Joe 

--- Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:   
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:14:11 -0800, Joe Shen wrote:
> >        |-(ADSL)--------\
> >  customer/                
> --Edge_router---...---Japan Server      
> >      \-(100Methernet)-/
> 
> 
> it is probably worth doing an experiment, by placing
> a target host 
> just before the edge router, inside your net, and
> verify that you do 
> not get the (bad) differential performance there.  
> 
> 
> d/
> --
> Dave Crocker
> Brandenburg InternetWorking
> +1.408.246.8253
> dcrocker  a t ...
> www.brandenburg.com
> 
> 
>  

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