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New System Could Speed Up Internet Downloads - Movies in seconds
Reuters ^
| June 4, 2003
| Reuters
Posted on 06/05/2003 6:51:16 AM PDT by Damocles
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New porn pipeline...
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:51:18 AM PDT
by
Damocles
To: Damocles
The viruses will arrive much faster.
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:53:25 AM PDT
by
Consort
To: Damocles
The Fast TCP reveals the delays and predict the highest data rate the connection can support without losing data.I would have bet anything TCP already did this. It's kinda obvious, isn't it?
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:53:43 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I"m not always cranky.)
To: Petronski
TCP does do this..Sounds like error checking be damned...Why not use UDP if that is the case?
To: Damocles
way cool
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:56:41 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(crunchy frog?)
To: Damocles
Finally.
Porn the way we want it.
Fast and naughty.
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:57:03 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I've decided to cut back my tagline, one word at a)
To: Lazamataz
Live and in color !!
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:59:51 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(Close the borders, problems solved!)
To: Damocles
When the researchers tested 10 Fast TCP systems together it boosted the speed to more than 6,000 times the capacity of the ordinary broadband links. I'm sorry, but we'll have to see their research. This is an incredible claim that will require incedible proof.
"Caltech is already in talks with Microsoft and Disney about using it for video on demand," the magazine added.
"in talks with", do you know what that means? We called the receptionist.
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posted on
06/05/2003 7:01:30 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Piss off a liberal: Hire Someone.)
To: Damocles
The net is destroying the music and hi tech consulting industries. Hollywood is next. The internet will make all media free.
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posted on
06/05/2003 7:07:08 AM PDT
by
FoxPro
To: FoxPro
Isn't competition wonderful.
To: FoxPro
If it is free, why would anyone produce it?
To: StolarStorm
If it is free, why would anyone produce it?For the reasons all artists do what they do - they want to get a reaction from people. The issue of getting paid for it has always been a spoiler. Despite the fact that most any recorded music is available to me I still purcase CDs from my favorite artists and pay $$$ go to their live performances.
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posted on
06/05/2003 7:52:39 AM PDT
by
corkoman
(did someone say WOD?)
To: StolarStorm
"If it is free, why would anyone produce it?"
We'd be better off if they didn't produce most of it. New music is crap, new movies are crap...
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posted on
06/05/2003 7:54:44 AM PDT
by
babygene
(Viable after 87 trimesters)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; sourcery
fyi
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posted on
06/05/2003 8:00:19 AM PDT
by
Free the USA
(Stooge for the Rich)
To: babygene
"We'd be better off if they didn't produce most of it. New music is crap, new movies are crap..."
man thats the truth, but you forgot to add tv to the list.
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posted on
06/05/2003 8:18:46 AM PDT
by
sylar
To: unix
The basic premise here seems to be looking at the delay between the end of the requesting GET command and the arrival of the first byte of the response. The bulk of the delay, is typically due to the server.
By measuring this round-trip timer (RTT), the max throughput can be calculated. By implementing slight modification to TCP's increase and decrease parameters for TCP connections with larger congestion windows, TCP should be able to achieve high throughput with more realistic requirements for the steady-state packet drop rate.
It's a relatively simple change to an old methodology. It takes the existing protocol stack and change behavior a bit. It will maintain compatibility with existing operations.
Since its window size is based on initial delay and a "slow start" (not starting with a large window size), it won't add congestion to existing infrastructure. It will only transmit what the network can handle, so there should be no additional risk of congetion collapse.
Since UDP has no such congestion mechanisms, it isn't a good choice for this type of operation.
I'll shut up now. . .
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posted on
06/05/2003 8:29:11 AM PDT
by
csconerd
To: StolarStorm
Looks like we will have to write and film our own movies. The Internet changes everything, just not in the way most people predicted.
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posted on
06/05/2003 8:32:26 AM PDT
by
FoxPro
To: Damocles
The sending computer transmits a pack, waits for a signal from the recipient that acknowledges its safe arrival, and then sends the next packet," New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday. Wrong! TCP sends packets in advance, times the return ack, and learns the sending rate required to maximize throughput of the channel. It can have many packets in transit before their acks start to arrive.
When the researchers tested 10 Fast TCP systems together it boosted the speed to more than 6,000 times the capacity of the ordinary broadband links.
Bull! TCP will fill a channel to about 80% of its maximum capacity.
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posted on
06/05/2003 8:40:40 AM PDT
by
jlogajan
To: FoxPro
There is always going to be a market for big budget films regardless of the internet. Without compensation nobody is going to make a Lord of the Rings of the same quality. I agree with you guys on music... many artists will make their money with concerts and use the internet to promote them. Most bands hate the record companies anyway and don't see much money from actual record sales.
Perhaps everthing will go the route of shareware. Those that like the product will feel some obligation to contribute. Sadly there will always be freeloaders that will never contribute anything.
To: Lazamataz
Porn the way we want it. Fast and naughty. Maybe, but soon as I see "Laz does Dallas" offered, I'm quitting the internet for good!
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