Let me preface my responses by saying, I'm not in any way a degreed computer
or IT expert; just someone whose knowledge of computers, ect comes from
personal readings and experience. So please pardon me for not being as
precise as one could be with my response to the poster.
That being said, I understood his question to be why was his transmission
speed dimishing over time and that that lowered transmission was not
exclusive to his transmissions between his pc and his ISP. So I responded
to what I've read as being a problem in current ITC protocol that indeed
this "problem" is also being experienced by a whole lot of other people-ie.,
everyone on the internet.
As for your statement that Low's protocol is "internet 2", I don't know.
The article in the Economist states Low's protocol is titled "FAST" (it
doesn't state what that acrnym stands for) and states that the FAST protocol
increases transmission speeds if it detects no errors in the transmission it
is monitoring. The current TCP only lowers transmission rates to eliminate
transmission errors.
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> > It has to do with the internet's verification process and how data
> is sent
> > over the net's transmission lines. According to article I've
> recently read,
> > the internet is set up so that constantly checks packs received to
> packs
> > sent and if there errors due to transmission congestion, that is,
> packs sent
> > and not received, then the transmission rate between a send point
> and
> > received point is lowered and possibly lowered again if errors
> continue
> > realized between those to points.
>
> ==> If his recieve point is his pc and his send point is his ISP, how
> can the errors be due to congestion. xDSL is a dedicated connection.
> If there's congestion it must be on the other side of his ISP, in
> which case, a whole lot of other ppl must be having the same prob. Not
> so?
>
> > Article went on to say that there is another transmission protocol
> that
> > would allow for faster transmission along a diminished transmission
> route if
> > error rate is lessened as congestion along transmission route
> lightens but
> > that protocol needs to be recognized and accepted into the current
> IP/TCP
> > structure.
> > Article was in the Economist's Technology Quarterly, 6.21.03 or Dr.
> Steven
> > Low's work at California Institute of Technology.
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> ==> That's internet 2. It send/recieves at fantastic rates as in Gb
> per second using off the shelf equipment. Transmission tests between
> Ca and ( IIRC) Netherlands were screaming. I can't remember the exact
> #s but weren't they in the multi Gb P/S range? Also, IIRC, it works
> because of the way packets are checked. Is that right?
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