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Re: MTU of the Internet?
From: Dennis Simpson <dennis () bconnex net>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:18:56 -0500 (EST)
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:51:44 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc () iMach com> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com> cc: Peter Ford <peterf () microsoft com>, "'nanog () merit edu'"
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Subject: Re: MTU of the Internet? Now it's been a while since I looked at latency vs transfer rates, so maybe someone who works on this on an everyday basis would like to comment on what ~200 more ms of latency on a 28.8 link would do to throughput end-to-end across the net (totals of something like 350 and 512 ms end-to-end).
We recommend that clients who care about interactive response use small MTUs, and clients who care about download speed use higher MTUs. It seems most of them agree that smaller MTUs improve their interactive response for things like telnet, IRC, MUD, etc., particularly if they are downloading/surfing at the same time. Thx, dennis
Current thread:
- Re: MTU of the Internet?, (continued)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Scott Whyte (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Steve Carter (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Perry E. Metzger (Feb 05)
- The 'tude [Was MTU of the Internet?] Steve Carter (Feb 05)
- Re: The 'tude [Was MTU of the Internet?] Perry E. Metzger (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jeff Stehman (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Marc Slemko (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Kevin A. Smith (Feb 05)