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Back around 2006, I had a RAZR that I figured out how to use to tether my computer onto Verizon’s 1xRTT service. I’m not sure which part of the system was to bl
by mikeash 9y ago
Back around 2006, I had a RAZR that I figured out how to use to tether my computer onto Verizon’s 1xRTT service. I’m not sure which part of the system was to blame, but something had massive buffers and a strong aversion to dropping packets. If the connection got saturated I could easily see ping times of two minutes or more.
- supertrope 9y agoTo deal with the lossy RF environment, there are re-transmits at the PHY layer. Effectively creating a TCP on top of TCP situation.