Re: MTU of the Internet?

[Frank Kastenholz <kasten () argon com>]

At 12:36 AM 2/8/98 -0600, Phil Howard wrote:

> By loading the images in parallel, with the initial part of the image files
> being a fuzzy approximation, you get to see about where every button is
> located, and in many cases you know exactly what it is, and you can click
> on them as soon as you know where to go.

things like buttons tend to be very very small.
the connections never really get out of slowstart.
loading them all in parallel would help, somewhat,
to fully utilize the b*d of the path. but it isn't
very adaptive. better would be to use a single connection
to load all the images. the tcp will rather quickly settle
on the 'best' bandwidth of the link and your overall
throughput will then be optimal.