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|    vallor to R.Wieser    |
|    Re: How do "they" Speed-test Internet Li    |
|    10 Sep 25 01:00:57    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11       From: vallor@cultnix.org              On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 13:53:00 +0200, "R.Wieser" wrote       in <109p7tq$106v8$2@dont-email.me>:              > Carlos,       >       >>> Yes, understood, Rudy, don't start sending second Block until       >>> reception of first block acknowledged.       >>       >> Hum. Maybe not. I did not study TCP in that detail, but older protocols       >> would send a number of blocks, say 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 and start receiving       >> the ACKs after number 3. The receiver says OK to number 1, fail number       >> 2, Ok number 3... so after a while, out of sequence, the sender repeats       >> number 2, just after sending number 6.       >       > You are correct, it still does that. But its not a good idea to try to       > explain higher math to someone who doesn't (yet) know how additions       > work.       >       > Regards,       > Rudy Wieser              When I first learned about TCP/IP, I read text files ftp'ed from       the net.              I still have them, one of them being:              https://vallor.earth/ip/tcp-ip-intro.txt               RUTGERS        The State University of New Jersey        Center for Computers and Information Services        Laboratory for Computer Science Research                      3 October 1988              This is an introduction to the Internet networking protocols (TCP/IP).       It includes a summary of the facilities available and brief       descriptions of the major protocols in the family.              Copyright (C) 1987, Charles L. Hedrick. Anyone may reproduce this       document, in whole or in part, provided that: (1) any copy or       republication of the entire document must show Rutgers University as       the source, and must include this notice; and (2) any other use of       this material must reference this manual and Rutgers University, and       the fact that the material is copyright by Charles Hedrick and is used       by permission.       [...]              More documents at              https://vallor.earth/ip/              --       -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G        OS: Linux 6.16.5 D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18        NVIDIA: 580.82.07 Mem: 258G        "Who is "General Failure" and why is he reading my disk?"              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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