>every hipster made their own decision about how to handle congestion control Unless they had access to a tier 1/2 network provider it'd be mostly harmless I s

>every hipster made their own decision about how to handle congestion control Unless they had access to a tier 1/2 network provider it'd be mostly harmless I suspect. They'd spam their local gateway. "Look I can send 300k packets a second over standard DSL" But yes, TCP is generally a good thing.