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Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant"
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:02:13 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
If AT&T is really claiming that their backbone has less than 15 Mbps capacity (which is how "the backbone doesn't transport at those speeds" reads in plain English), this is either
Maybe they meant that the typical end-user windows IP stack has small enough TCP windows that when you take into account typical latency across the internet, those users just can't utilize their high bandwidth links due to the bandwidth * delay product.
- an April Fools joke or - pitiful.
Could be either. Did you happen to catch the woman from Verizon at the last NANOG who was sure parts of New Orleans were 2 miles below sea level? Maybe that was a really early AFJ.
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- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Sean Donelan (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" David Lesher (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Randy Bush (Apr 02)
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- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Randy Bush (Apr 02)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Joe Provo (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Daniel Senie (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Sean Donelan (Apr 01)
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- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Marshall Eubanks (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Jon Lewis (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Edward B. DREGER (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Robert Boyle (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Jon Lewis (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Frank Bulk (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Edward B. DREGER (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Simon Lockhart (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Marshall Eubanks (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Sean Donelan (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Edward B. DREGER (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Simon Lockhart (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Marshall Eubanks (Apr 01)
- RE: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" Frank Bulk (Apr 01)
- Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant" David Lesher (Apr 01)