Re: Imminent Death of the Internet, GIF at 11

Simon Spero writes:

Remember, though - TCPs initial estimate of the congestion window is never less than one packet, large numbers of opening connections can still (I think) lead to congestion collapse. It can defnitely get close to it.

Sure. TCP, especially without SACK but even with such schemes, more or less requires an average of no less than one packet per RTT. However, the other half of what I said is that bandwidth *is* rising. Perry