latency (was: RE: cooling door)

Sun Mar 30 16:29:57 UTC 2008

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Fred Reimer wrote:

> application to take advantage of the networks' capabilities.   Mikael (seems
> to) complain that developers have to put latency inducing applications into
> the development environment.  I'd say that those developers are some of the
> few who actually have a clue, and are doing the right thing.

I was definately not complaining, I brought it up as an example where 
developers have clue and where they're doing the right thing.

I've too often been involved in customer complaints which ended up being 
the fault of Microsoft SMB and the customers having the firm idea that it 
must be a network problem since MS is a world standard and that can't be 
changed. Even proposing to change TCP Window settings to get FTP transfers 
quicker is met with the same sceptisism.

Even after describing to them about the propagation delay of light in 
fiber and the physical limitations, they're still very suspicious about it 
all.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se