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I can also add mandatory TLS to this list. Back in the day you could receive an entire webpage response in the first TCP packet with data. TLS requires more tur
by vbezhenar 3y ago
I can also add mandatory TLS to this list. Back in the day you could receive an entire webpage response in the first TCP packet with data. TLS requires more turn-arounds, especially if webpage uses multiple different domains, and network latency is not going anywhere, it's physics. I had 200 ms latency in 2000, I have 200 ms latency in 2020, I'll have 200 ms latency in 2050, that's just thousands of kilometers to travel.
- toast0 3y agoLatencies have gotten better, although not tremendously so. Depending on your last mile tech in 2000 and what you have now, you might have gone fron dialup with first hop round trips of 50-100ms, to something in the neighborhood of 5-25ms with fiber, dsl or cable. Or maybe you were already on dsl or cable and things are about the same. Most of a 200ms round trip is on a long distance route, and fiber routes have improved, as had routing equipment in the data path. If you're outside the US and Europe, there's been a lot more local interconnections too, so routes that used to bounce through US/EU in 2000 don't in 2023. Saving a few ms here and there adds up, but 160 ms instead of 200 ms doesn't feel that much different.