> For the most part it works fine. Only for apps that don't try to utilize maximum throughput. Skype, YouTube, most web browsing, most mail use. But those tha

> For the most part it works fine. Only for apps that don't try to utilize maximum throughput. Skype, YouTube, most web browsing, most mail use. But those that do - like large file transfers over ftp/sftp or a very large email, for example - will cause the meltdown described in this article. There are some TCP stacks that use RTT rather than packet loss as their congestion metric; Those fair well under a TCP-over-TCP regime (but have other problems)