[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Scott Dorsey]

Bill Gunshannon  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>Well, I was talking real world rather than theoretical.
>20 years ago I used to connect to a machine in Texas A&M
>from the University of Scranton.  Character echo was not
>just noticeable it was measurable with a stop watch.
>Today, there would be no noticeable delay at all unless
>there was a major network outage somewhere between us.

Yes, back then that was mostly because transmissions were bursty and all
the lines were operating at the limit.  So when you pressed a key, the
packet would be queued up for a while before there was time to send it.
And that would likely happen at every hop along the way, and there were
a lot of hops between Texas and Scranton.

That's not a matter of transmission latency, that's delay caused by a
combination of the lack of capacity and the ip protocol.

Throwing bandwidth at that problem works.  But it only gets you so far.
--scott

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