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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.

3 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. Isn't this called UDP? by havaloc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's see. Transmission without error-checking is called UDP, isn't it?

  2. not optimistic by ravinfinite · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "When the researchers tested 10 Fast TCP systems together it boosted the speed to more than 6,000 times the capacity of the ordinary broadband links.

    6,000 times? The tests done in labs are usually stripped-down and the results overstated just for statistical pleasure. In the real world, however, such figures are rarely achieved.

  3. There is a reason why TCP throttles itself by Madwand · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's called congestion collapse and the condition is described by RFC 896 by John Nagle.

    Just firing packets into the network willy-nilly is very bad; it's the "tragedy of the commons" all over again...