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Fast TCP To Increase Speed Of File Transfers?
Wrighter writes "There's a new story at Yahoo about a new version of TCP called Fast TCP that might help increase the speed of file transfers. Sounds like it basically estimates the maximum efficient speed of your network, and then goes for it, dumping a lot of time-consuming error checking." There's also an article at the New Scientist with some additional information.
New Scientist Article:
I'm talking out my ass about something I know nothing about, but I like to download stuff from the internet.
Apples are 6000 times faster than oranges.
Yahoo Article:
I'm talking out my ass about people talking out their asses. But the best part is, the New Oranges are 6000 times faster than the old Oranges.
Crap people - "1500" byte packets have nothing to do with tcp OR ip limitations - it's only there because of ethernet, just like frame links are around 2k packets, and Token ring is 4k, and SONET doesn't have native packet sizes, it's whatever packet you are sending over SONET.
video on demand has NOTHING to do with TCP. It's all UDP. And the only error checking there is what you manually add.
So, what are they really doing? Hell, it's Cal-Tech, so it probably is pretty cool, but it sure doesn't have anything to do with those articles.
BTW, if it uses the same infrastructure, Why the hell are they already talking about the "improved internet2 infrastructure"?
Only if you RTFD first