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Latency kills...and Ethernet uses exponential backoff.

• crote 2y ago
  More specifically TCP uses exponential backoff. Ethernet will happily keep drowning you in packages at line rate, if I'm not mistaken.
  • daymanstep 2y ago
    CSMA/CD does use exponential back off, though I'm not sure if anyone is still using it.
    • fach 2y ago
      This is only for half-duplex ethernet communication so no one apart from some archaic systems.
      • ryan-c 2y ago
        Like WiFi?
        • edward28 2y ago
          CSMA/CA but close.
      • pantalaimon 2y ago
        There is also 10Base-T1 which is a rather recent addition.
  • KennyBlanken 2y ago
    > Ethernet will happily keep drowning you in packages at line rate, if I'm not mistaken. It's a physical layer, so yeah, of course it will.