Re: [PATCH] TCP Vegas implementation available

Rik van Riel (riel@humbolt.nl.linux.org)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 17:00:07 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Riley Williams wrote:

> >> Would it help for us poor PPP over analog phone folks who
> >> can only use up to 1/4th of the available bandwith with the
> >> current TCP stack?
>
> > I get better than that over analog PPP, 28.8k -- your problem
> > must be elsewhere ;)
>
> I'm not sure what limit is being referred to above, but I have a USR
> Sportster 33k6/VoiceFax modem as my net link, and when I do ftp
> transfers over it, I usually get around 3.7k per second. That's pretty
> much 100% of the available bandwidth by my calculation...

I assume you're talking about _download_ bandwidth. I get
100% on downloads as well -- it's just that _uploads_ seem
to be restricted to about 25% of the bandwidth :(

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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