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SubjectRe: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks
> Congestion control can also persist across connections, web servers could
> have congestion 'buckets' that track the amount of congestion to various

The point is that you can do the same with TCP.

> subnets (as calculated from RTTs and dropped packets). Web requests could
> be sent as small packets

No. To prevent wasting network bandwidth by packet headers, you should
use the largest packets you can, i.e. MSS = MTU.

> which routers can be programmed not to drop except as a 'last' resort (below
> telnet and ssh, etc)..

Nonsense. HTTP should _not_ be preferred over other well-behaving
protocols.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Diplomacy is an art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock."

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