Re: my broken TCP is faster on broken networks
Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:23:34 -0400 (EDT)
>> Consider a 2-minute delay to be a complete failure, because it is.
>> Anything more than a few seconds is not useful. One reasonable (?)
...
> When you have an Internet connection that dumps you after 5 hours, you'll
> think otherwise. As soon as I get dumped, I have it set to redial back the
> University. Once the PPP is restablished, all of my connections are still
> there. If I haven't typed anything on them since I was cut off, they have
> no delay getting back. If I did type something, there's up to a 2 minute
> delay (though typically only a few seconds) to get my connection working
> again. If I don't get the same IP address (90% of the time I get the same
> one), then obviously my connections don't work but it is _very_ handy to
> not be disconnected. So here, a limit would only hurt things. It takes
> ~40-50 seconds to reestablish the PPP connection.
>
> Windows immediately cuts me off from everything when that happens. Linux
> will happily resume a three hour FTP transfer after I've long fallen
> asleep.
I propose to reduce the time it takes you to recover, not cut you off.
Your connection should start working in seconds, not minutes. I am often
under the exact same conditions as you, and I hate the recovery time.
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