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RTT (Round Trip Time): Aka – Why bandwidth doesn’t matter

A great post over on ajaxian got me to thinking today.  Why is it whenever you hear people talking about speed on the internet, they use a single metric?  Whether they’re discussing the connection in...
Published May 25, 2010
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I have a table in my TCP Windowing article (devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx) that shows what a difference latency makes.

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