Thanks for checking us out SwellJoe! I think what I've discovered is that the Hacker News community is more tech-savvy than originally thought. Sorry about tha

Thanks for checking us out SwellJoe! I think what I've discovered is that the Hacker News community is more tech-savvy than originally thought. Sorry about that! Obviously we're missing some of the technical details of what we're trying to do. I'm going to work on a blog post to help clarify things, but for now you may be interested to know that SuperTCP is essentially a kernel-based TCP proxy. This allows us to–with only changes to one side of the connection–tweak every aspect of the data transmission as long as we stay within TCP's defined restrictions. Yes, we tweak initial window sizes and lots of other things that can be easily changed on most operating systems, but our main differentiator is how we detect and utilize the available bandwidth, or really how we react to congestion when we see it. SuperTCP tries to be better than the other congestion control algorithms (CUBIC, Reno, NewReno, etc.) most operating systems support. That's where we're better.