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|    Re: How do "they" Speed-test Internet Li    |
|    10 Sep 25 20:29:55    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11       From: daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse              On 10/09/2025 10:01 am, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:       > On Tue, 9 Sep 2025 21:36:19 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:       >> On 9/09/2025 9:14 pm, Carlos E.R. wrote:       >>>       >>> 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.       >>>       >> During my Military Service, I worked at The Australian Army's Primary       >> H.F. Transmitter site. Most of our signals were multi-channel TTY over       >> an A.F. channel. Just kept sending. If there was a corruption, that'd       >> get resent later, if needed.       >       > You’re talking fairly low-bandwidth communication, where the end-to-end       > latency is only a few symbols at most.              No, Lawrence, I'm not talking "fairly low-bandwidth communication",       Lawrence, nothing THAT FAST!! Try 50 or 75 Baud, late 70's/early 80's.              > With typical Internet connection speeds, end-to-end latencies can add up       > to dozens, hundreds of data packets. So if you don’t use a windowing       > protocol, you end up with very low channel bandwidth usage efficiency.       >       o.K.       --       Daniel70              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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