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The ISP Column A column on things Internet Other Formats: The Size of Packets October 2024 Geoff Huston We've now been running packet-switched networks for many decades, and these days it's packets and not virtual circuits lie behind most of the world's digital communications service. But some very fundamental questions remain unanswered in this packet-switched world. Perhaps the most basic questions is: "How big should a packet be?" And, surprisingly enough, there is no clear answer!
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Ethernet cables, which connect your devices directly to your internet router, can speed up your connection. Ethernet cables, which connect your devices directly to your internet router, can speed up your connection. Professor25/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. The majority of users access the internet using wireless devices, like phones or laptops. These devices connect to the internet using Wi-Fi, wirel
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rubberball/Getty Images Wireless internet connections are convenient, but they're also notoriously unreliable. Nothing proves that point more emphatically than a glitchy video conference call, especially if it's tied to a crucial business meeting. The solution is to run a wired network connection to your home office. Wi-Fi is great for mobility, but a wired connection offers many advantages when it comes to working from home. It's faster and more reliable, with lower latency, all of which matt
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Writing your own TCP/IP stack may seem like a daunting task. Indeed, TCP has accumulated many specifications over its lifetime of more than thirty years. The core specification, however, is seemingly compact - the important parts being TCP header parsing, the state machine, congestion control and retransmission timeout computation. The most common layer 2 and layer 3 protocols, Ethernet and IP respectively, pale in comparison to TCP’s complexity. In this blog series, we will implement a minimal
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Writing your own TCP/IP stack may seem like a daunting task. Indeed, TCP has accumulated many specifications over its lifetime of more than thirty years. The core specification, however, is seemingly compact - the important parts being TCP header parsing, the state machine, congestion control and retransmission timeout computation. The most common layer 2 and layer 3 protocols, Ethernet and IP respectively, pale in comparison to TCP’s complexity. In this blog series, we will implement a minimal
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