NC State Scientists Develop Breakthrough Internet Protocol

NC State Website ^ | 15 March 2004

[Future Snake Eater]

Any techies know anything about this technology?

[Future Snake Eater]

Go Pack!

[billorites]

One can never be too young,
too rich,
or have too much bandwidth.

[martin_fierro]

I thought AOL already had it.

<|:)~

[newgeezer]

a new data transfer protocol for the Internet that makes today’s high-speed Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections seem lethargic.

So what? My cable modem service makes most DSL connections seem lethargic! ;O)

[TomGuy]

Oh, yeh! Now we can get porn, I mean, info faster. Yeh!

[Erasmus]

The comparison of BIC-TCP to DSL is specious; I presume that's the journalist talking.

It seems to be comparing the theoretical maximum performance of one protocol (no channel bitrate limitations) to another protocol over a known finite bitrate channel (although the article doesn't state its assumptions, by saying 'DSL' they must mean between 380 and 1500 Kb/s).

It's apples and a$$holes.

Of course, the writer of the article may have jumbled up the story so much that my interpretation is wrong.

[Mr. Bird]

Can you give me an idea of the speed difference between DSL and cable? We're in a new development, and we're not equipped for either yet, but I want to know if I should hold out for cable in any case. My home internet use is entirely recreational.

[vollmond]

Pretty impressive for NC State, but the Terps have their number this year.

[Erasmus]

Justa wait until they getta more subscribers, Monkey-boy!

+-<]B^)

[Sgt_Schultze]

Daryle Singletary sang, I Ain't Never Had Too Much Fun

To go along with your observation that there is never enough bandwith, I paste here, the chorus...

Too much fun? What's that mean?
It's like too much money, there's no such thing
It's like a girl too pretty, with too much class Being too lucky, a car too fast
No matter what they say I've done
I ain't never had too much fun

[M_i_G]

What kind of speeds are you getting with cable? I'm getting a little over 5 Mbit(640 KB/sec) down and .5 Mbit (65 KB/sec) up; with dsl.

[Dead Corpse]

Click here.

Includes their white paper on it and code source.

Google is our friend.

[Constitution Day]

Very cool! BTTT!

[Future Snake Eater]

Yeah, yeah...although I feel a lot better since Duke lost to them, too.

[newgeezer]

The operative word in their sentence was "high-speed" DSL; I conveniently left that out of my reply.

My friends with (slow) DSL are getting ~300 Kbps down; I'm getting 1.5 - 2.0 Mbps on cable.

[rintense]

If you're merely a surfer, the difference between DSL and high speed cable is minor. Which one to choose coome down to price and service. But, if you do a lot of FTP or downloading of files, DSL is generally faster due to a single, dedicated line.

[rintense]

I'm getting 1.5 - 2.0 Mbps on cable.

You're getting THAT on a cable line? Wow. Wish I had that.

[sopwith]

Sign me up!

[newgeezer]

The tel. co. here has multi-tiered DSL service; the more you pay, the higher your speed.

Conceivably, DSL speed is independent of the number of subscribers in your area. Cable modem service is 'shared' so that if you have more neighbors online, your speed will degrade.

All I can say is that I've been on the service for over 2 years. Almost all my neighbors have it and, just a month ago, the whole system was upgraded so that the average bandwidth increased by ~2X.

Due to the telco's method of installation 15 years ago, DSL is not available in my 'hood. So, I'm glad cable service is as good as it is (it was bad before @Home went belly-up and Mediacom took over).