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To: SteveG who wrote (27837)	10/25/1997 8:29:00 PM
From: Andreas Helke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

A major reason for the slow average speed of http traffic is a bad match between http and TCP/IP. A TCP/IP connection starts slow and if it finds out that the network can handle more it speeds up the data rate. But a typical web page consists of many small files. And for each file it builds up a new TCP/IP connection wich starts up slow again. I think sooner or later either the http or the TCP/IP protocol will be changed to address the performance problems of the most popular TCP/IP application. FTP tranfer starts slowly too but with a long file it will reach the maximum speed that the network connection can handle. For FTP tranfers over a T3 link and 10 MBit Ethernet I got all speeds between 1 Kbit/s to 5 Mbit/s. Andreas

To: SteveG who wrote (27837)	11/13/1997 10:29:00 AM
From: Peter Piper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

Did we ever conclude whether ADSL can cause more timeouts? Came across an article in about the internet overload during Wall Streets' yoyo a few weeks ago. And I quote: "No matter how good your backbone and your servers may be, if your clients have 14.4-kilobit-per-second modems, you have a bottleneck," McQuary said. McQuary is President and COO of Mindspring, an ISP. Article is at: techweb.com Wall Street Frenzy Leaves Website Managers' Taking Stock (11/13/97; 9:00 a.m. EST) By Tim Wilson, InternetWeek So can we conclude that all things equal, ADSL will reduce bottlenecks and probably timeouts as well. All things dynamically unpredictable, ADSL could wreck havoc and terror onto the ISP and backbone. Peter Piper (your electronic plumber)