The next broadband killer: advanced operating systems?

Tue Oct 23 08:43:38 UTC 2007

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Sam Stickland wrote:

> servers. From this little bit of evidence I can blazenly extrpolate to 
> suggest that maximum bandwidth consumption is currently limited to some 
> noticable degree by the lack of widely deployed TCP window size tuning. Links 
> that are currently uncongested might suddenly see a sizable amount of extra 
> traffic.

So, do we think that traffic will have a higher peak due to this (more 
traffic at peak time compared to low time), or that people will actually 
transfer more data because they get higher thruput?

I don't see it as natural that people will transfer more data totally 
because they get higher thruput.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se