On 30 Mar 2002 at 12:31, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> If you consider the constraints of the physical layer (crossbars don't > scale, and latency limits bidirectional acknowledged protocols to short > links), you'll that doesn't leave you with too many choices. > > Is this really true for peoples' home machines? I had the impression that with a typical asymmetric connection you've got a big slow bottleneck going upstream to your isp, and maybe another bottleneck at the far end, but pretty much you get the same throughput no matter where the other end is. Although come to think of it I think I made a contrary assumption earlier. George
