jerry ely wrote: > Due to the 'speed-of-light' thing, the culprit for the performance issue is > TCP/IP. I had the privelage of speaking with an IBM genius in networking and > he provided an easy explanation. TCP/IP uses 'sliding window' for > flowcontrol. The window size can be up to 64k and varies depending on > With this in mind, the 'custom software' mentioned could easily be an IPv6 > tunnel or similar. Since linux has IPv6 software in its collection, maybe > using this would releive some of the perfoemance concerns experienced b y2 > way sattelite communications....IMHO > I think it's more like the accelerator software sold for modem use. Mostly caching, possibly some compression. That's for incomming traffic. Outgoing is worse, since you have to wait for a transmit slot. Then you send a burst of data. Again, for browsing, it's not to bad, but for other work it's too much delay. http://www.starbandusers.com/performance.htm has some good info, I'm sure DirectWay is using the same type of software. The genberal info is that neither StarBand nor DirectWay is usable with non-Windoze. StarBand dropped their support of the 180 box, and the new 360 doesn't have an ethernet jack. -Thomas -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
