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I assume that since submitter is named "supertcp", you're the author of the site. To you I ask, what exactly does SuperTCP do? Scrolling down to "How It Works
by jasode 12y ago
I assume that since submitter is named "supertcp", you're the author of the site. To you I ask, what exactly does SuperTCP do?
Scrolling down to "How It Works", it doesn't really explain "how it works" but instead, it has vague phrases such as "better algorithms". If one then decides to click on more details via your blog post "Why the Internet is Slow" (which btw often returns "Resource Limit Is Reached"), it still doesn't explain the technical nitty gritty details.[1]
Those vague texts you've written may be ok for Wired Magazine or TechCrunch but for the HN crowd who is more sophisticated about hardcore technology, can you provide a more satisfying description of what it does? Is it jumbo packets? Changing ACKnowledgement timings? What exactly does it do that requires no new software to be installed?
[1]google cache in case the real pages are not responding:
"How it Works": http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Jb8UsXVCag8J:www.supertcp.com/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Jb8UsXV...
"Why the Internet is Slow"
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HWoIkC7ECRgJ:www.supertcp.com/why-the-internet-is-slow/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:HWoIkC7...
- mcguire 12y agoThanks for the cache links. But this isn't starting well: "Now, with a direct circuit between you and them the only limit on how quickly you could send data was how you encoded it and the speed of light (or, the speed of electricity anyway).... "...And apparently somebody else thought of that which is why they built a protocol called the transport control protocol, or TCP...."
- supertcp 12y agoA lot of questions are coming in around "nitty gritty details". I'm going to work on a blog post to try to address this. There are some aspects that are proprietary, but hopefully I can answer most–if not all–of these more technical inquiries. Thanks!
- Vendan 12y agoProprietary? Please note, you won't get a lot of interest from HN for proprietary closed source code.