On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Frank Bulk wrote:
>
> I wouldn't mind if upstream utilization matched
downstream rates as we're
> essentially paying for downstream utilization, not
upstream. Are there more
> pieces to the bandwidth puzzle that would start getting
messed up if ISPs
> and end-users were more symmetrical in their usage?
it might also be interesting to know how tcp-stack
differences affect some
of the usage patterns as well. With the now widely deployed
win* platform
tcp stach respecting tcp-reno things work according to well
understood/accepted models. Mac OSX, linux and Vista seem to
NOT respect
tcp-reno, and may change the models somewhat... Will this
cause more
spikiness on individual links? will this change in behaviour
on a wide
scale (vista rollout to new computers or to existing
platforms) causing
folks capacity planning models to fail?
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