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June 6th, 2003, 01:18 AM
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Wired News reports that a group of Scientists from Cal Tech have designed a method (called Fast TCP) to increase download speeds with existing Internet infrastructure. This would allow the user to download full-length movies in a matter of seconds:
"The Fast TCP system, designed by a team of researchers at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, runs on the same Internet infrastructure currently used but is designed to be much quicker."
"The difference (in Fast TCP) is in the software and hardware on the sending computer, which continually measures the time it takes for sent packets to arrive and how long acknowledgements take to come back," the magazine added. The Fast TCP reveals the delays and predicts the highest data rate the connection can support without losing data."
Quite interesting. Those guys over @ Caltech are awesome  | 
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June 9th, 2003, 11:21 AM
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drooooooling.....
Man, hopefully we'll be using that in the future..  | |
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June 9th, 2003, 11:28 AM
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hmm I doubt it it will be the near future.
Anyway, I`ve read that Disney and another company that i` cant think of the name right now have asked this Fast TCP for their Video on Demand. | |
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June 9th, 2003, 11:29 AM
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Yeah that would be great when its implemented.
On another note. Are you ok, Droopyale? You seem to be drooling a lot ..here and here  | |
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June 9th, 2003, 11:52 AM
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that was a good one
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June 9th, 2003, 01:40 PM
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haha.. caught me
I just go around drooling....
I want many things!!!!!  | |
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June 9th, 2003, 03:16 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by Droppyale
I want many things!!!!! | Learn one thing from zen...
Be content with what you have.
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June 9th, 2003, 03:23 PM
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advise taken | |
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June 9th, 2003, 04:21 PM
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I think people are rather missing the point with "Fast TCP" (eww I hate names with fast in ). The general idea is to improve the effiency of TCP for very high speed connections IF you have the expensive hardware and available bandwidth to achieve this. The deployment of Fast TCP is not going to magically turn your 512K dsl line into a 100 meg pipe, although it is a nice thought.
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June 9th, 2003, 04:57 PM
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But Eddy, DSL wasn't even a figment of our imagination just a few years ago. So maybe in 5 years, we'll all be surfing around downloading p0rn @ 100MB in a couple of seconds =)
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