Topic

TCP throughput behaviour

How the rate achieved by TCP connections depends on round-trip time, packet loss and the number of parallel streams in flight, and why single-stream and multi-stream results diverge.

Current clusters

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Pulsed Media traced a same-rack slowdown to a netmask too narrow to cover the neighbour

Two hosts on one wire managed 1 to 6 MB/s between them while each pulled from the public internet at line rate. Every byte was making two trips through the gateway. One read-only command printed the proof.

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Reality

Evidence47
Adoption18
Hype gap+18
Incentives62
Confidence58