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I have had customers say this when not getting desired throughput cross-continent. "But the pipes! They are fat!" Yes but also your window needs to scale...
by RajT88 3y ago
I have had customers say this when not getting desired throughput cross-continent. "But the pipes! They are fat!" Yes but also your window needs to scale... 6 figure network engineers not knowing about window scaling, who do not know how to analyze a packet trace.
I recently had someone suggest that they needed 1ms latency cross-continent. I explained patiently that the laws of physics have to change for them to hit that number.
I am not even a network engineer!
- rescbr 3y agoOh, this is too common! I can't even count how many times I had to blame Einstein for setting the speed of light too low in his law. (Nitpick: I know he's the wrong person to blame, but he's famous enough to make this joke understandable by everybody) Once I had to write a root cause analysis report and it basically explained how TCP works.