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"Speed" is related to both bandwidth and latency. High bandwidth with high latency will "feel slow." Unfortunately, everybody talks about bandwidth and ignore
by gvb 16y ago
"Speed" is related to both bandwidth and latency. High bandwidth with high latency will "feel slow." Unfortunately, everybody talks about bandwidth and ignores latency.
The "fat pipe syndrome" is a latency issue, not a "speed" (aka bandwidth) issue. Most home routers (and, I suspect, many commercial routers) only advertise bandwidth and not their latency.
ISPs also advertise their best case (burst) bandwidth and are typically silent on their latency and average bandwidth.
- regularfry 16y agoIt's both. A long-running, high-bandwidth stream will cause short-lived, low-bandwidth streams to be squeezed out, because the TCP congestion isn't being managed properly. The first stream will see relatively good speed but shonky latency, while the later streams will see bad speed as well, when they should share the bandwidth equally.