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> The usable throughput is the raw radio throughput divided by the number of buffers. This is not true. Buffers can under some circumstances increase latency,
by jimrandomh 9y ago
> The usable throughput is the raw radio throughput divided by the number of buffers.
This is not true. Buffers can under some circumstances increase latency, or cause a TCP connection to take longer to get to its steady-state speed, but they don't hurt steady-state throughput unless something else is very wrong.
- JPLeRouzic 9y agoYou are talking of yet another issue which is real and is related to the way TCP detects a congestion, but this is not specific to Wi-Fi. There are also problems of interoperability between TCP/IP and the Wi-Fi MAC layer, some of them could trigger congestion algorithms, but as the MCDU gets larger and larger this should not be a problem nowadays. Indeed it is a bit strange to have MCDU that are 64k large and IP packets that are 1.5k large. What I discussed was the way the buffers are in series inside the OS, this is known since a long time. A modern operating system throughput could be 5 to 9 faster than Linux: https://www.usenix.org/node/186147 https://www.usenix.org/node/186147