Re:Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive:...
by bigdubs on Monday August 19, 2019 @12:48PM
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tcp doesn't work well for wireless because packet drops due to signal interference look like collisions
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Re:Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive:...
by dehrmann on Monday August 19, 2019 @11:45PM
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This is somewhat true, but there's a lot of work done in the data link layer to provide a robust connection. TCP falls over with packet loss of less that 1%[1], so it's not really good at that, anyway.
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