On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:23:45AM +0100, Pierre Beyssac wrote:
> I can't reproduce this result, 16K fills a T1 for 11 ms, which is
> 22000 km (at 2/3 of light speed), enough to get halfway round the
> earth...
Your math is a little funny.
4000 km New York to LA
c = 300,000 km/sec
Speed of light in fiber, approximately .66 c, or 198,000 km/sec.
Approximate sum of buffering + serialization delay in the network,
is a 15% penalty, or 168,300 kph. total speed.
4000 km one way == 8000 km two way, 8000 / 168300 = 47ms in my book,
theoretial optimum.
With an RTT of 47ms, you can move 16k per RTT, or or about 340k/sec.
* If you find a cross country RTT of 47 ms I'll personally send you
$20. around 60-65 is normal for "good circuits", and 70-90 is
not wholely unusual.
* The 340k/sec assumes perfect network conditions, that is no dropped
or delayed packets.
Please search the archives. There are reams of information about
this.
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