[CLUE-Talk] "increase throughput of yer broadband 'net connection - windows users need not apply"

[Evan Widger]

bill ehlert wrote:
> 
> 
> "Internet on Steroids 
> 
> "The fastest hardware in the world will not do
> you much good if your software can't take
> advantage of it. The same principle applies to
> the Internet. Researchers from the California
> Institute of Technology recently demonstrated
> this with a zippy new protocol that can squeeze
> more horsepower out of high-speed Internet
> connections--up to 6,000 times more horsepower.
> 
>     . . .
> 
> "Oh, and there's one more catch: Pokey Windows
> servers need not apply. For now, FAST runs only
> on Linux."
> 
> 
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1195048,00.asp
> 

that's cool, i was just thinking earlier today looking at a download 
that was transfering at 4.3k of file data but 5.5k was passing through 
my nic and i was wondering if there was some way to make the TCP/IP 
overhead lower (i'm on dialup but i think i'd notice the speed 
difference even more if it was a leaner protocol).

-Evan Widger