On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
Overdraft? What peculiar terminology.
Not for banks it ain't... ;-)
The worst thing you'd expect in a path throughput constriction from 8M to 128k is surely the loss of a window's worth of data. You'd expect to TCP to wind back to slow start, and you'd expect the in-flight pipeline to drain very rapidly. Performance would certainly be hit, but I don't think I would expect consistently stalled connections.
Dunno if it's relevant, but Jetstart is rate-limited at the RAN, which can be anywhere in NZ (my one is in Glenfield, some 25-30km away, but used to be in Wellington). To and from the DSLAM, Jetstart users have a full RADSL connection (which incidentally is also rate-limited, to 4Mbps down). Would this sort of rate-limiting affect the problem? -- Juha Saarinen - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog