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Re: [NANOG] Larger packets to save power, was: Re: would ip6 help us safeing energy ?


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 22:02:54 +0200

On 5 mei 2008, at 21:56, Mike Fedyk wrote:

So if you have a 10 Mbps connection you don't get to
send 14000 64-byte packets per second, but a maximum of 2500  
packets per
second. So with 64-byte packets you only get to use 1.25 Mbps.

You have just cut out the VoIP industry, TCP setup, IM or most types  
of
real-time services on the Internet.

Of course not. Like I said, as an average end-user with 10 Mbps you  
get to send a maximum of 2500 packets per second. That's plenty to do  
VoIP, set up TCP sessions or do IM. You just don't get to send the  
full 10 Mbps at this size.

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