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Fast TCP To Increase Speed Of File Transfers?

Posted by simoniker on from the turbocharge-your-interweb dept.

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.

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  1. Has to be said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Faster pr0n!!!!

    1. Re:Has to be said... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Funny
      C'mon.

      HUGE performance increase is possible, just by ommiting the optional EVIL bit.

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  2. Error checking... by deanj · · Score: 0, Funny

    Yeah, that pesky error checking will get you every time....

  3. uh BitTorrent? by diesel_jackass · · Score: 4, Funny

    This would be badass when combined with BitTorrent!

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    1. Re:uh BitTorrent? by ogre2112 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I foresee BitTorrent as being the next Slashdot craze. (See: Beowulf, Natalie Portman. . .)

      "Hey! This article is great! Imagine how BitTorrent would help it!"

  4. Uh oh... by ctishman · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Caltech is already in talks with Microsoft and Disney about using it for video on demand," the magazine added. "Hey! Let's take a technology that's potentially revolutionary, and give it to Microsoft!" Yay for Caltech!

  5. Great! by Lu+Xun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who needs erro>*H~@}&)aA=cking anyway?

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  6. Nice... BUT! by digitalmonkey2k1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm, just think how much faster IIS can get infected with this one!

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  7. Yes, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...will Fast TCP have the Evil Bit?

  8. Re:Interesting, but I might suggest a different na by Achoi77 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Actually I was thinking DumbTCP, since essentially you try to remove what what makes TCP TCP...

    or you could also call it ReverseDoS..

    or Self-Slashdotting! :-)

  9. You just need to hire the right marketing team... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... to get a good name for this technology.

    With Microsoft's, it would be ActiveTCP.

    With Intel's, it would be HyperTCP.

    And so on, and so forth.

  10. Man! by nhaines · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only I were using Fast TCP, this could have been first post!

  11. Re:Isn't this called UDP? by Snoopy77 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The title seems to suggest that it is called "Fast TCP"??

    Gee ... we're not even reading the title of the stories anymore.

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  12. Re:Isn't this called UDP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Getting FP is far more important than reading this fluff article. If you've never gotten First Post yourself, you probably won't understand what I'm talking about.

  13. Re:You just need to hire the right marketing team. by pantropik · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know why they don't just get nVidia to design it. That way the sending machine will only send the packets it thinks you're actually going to be able to see instead of the entire datastream.

    nTCP = instant speed increase.

  14. Error Checking by DASHSL0T · · Score: 5, Funny

    Error checking hasn't been removed from TCP; we've removed it from Slashdot story summaries instead, speeding up the posting by nearly 6000x.
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  15. Re:zmodem??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow, does it?

    I'll have to go and rewrite the stack I've been working on. I put sliding windows in the TCP layer. Silly me!

  16. Error checking by isorox · · Score: 2, Funny

    dumping a lot of time-consuming error checking

    Sounds like a slashdot editor

  17. How This Gets Reported by jjgm · · Score: 2, Funny

    I actually heard this on the ABC radio news whilst driving to work this morning.

    Unfortunately they managed to summarise it in the most bogus form possible, and I quote (roughly)

    "Existing Internet links could run six thousand times as fast!".

    Even New Scientist, normally a beacon of good science journalism, is really dumbing it down to the noise level.

    The analogy they gave is most ironic -

    Steven Low, who led the Caltech team, likens the way the internet works now to driving a car while looking only 10 metres ahead. You slowly increase the car's speed until an obstacle comes into view, but then you have to hit the brakes. "This is OK for driving slowly in a parking lot," says Low. But on the open road you need to be able to look further ahead: "That's what we are doing with Fast TCP."

    ... as my car sat, motionless, on the congested freeway ...

  18. ymodem-g by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Still, nothing can be quite as fast as ymodem-g

    If I ever become a rapper, I have dibs on the name "YModem G"

  19. Seconds... by AnotherBlackHat · · Score: 2, Funny

    Scientists in California are working on a fast new Internet connection system that could enable an entire movie to be downloaded in a matter of seconds.

    Sure it does. I'm thinking around 10000 seconds.

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