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

[Evan Widger]

Casagrande, Steve wrote:
>>>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1195048,00.asp
>>>
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>>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).
> 
> 
> Caltech's FAST algorithm is actually useful for very high speed networks - I
> think it's a forward-looking congestion control algorithm.  
> 
> Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it would help your dialup speed.

D'OH! oh well, one can hope