- From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:35:40 -0800 (PST)
- To: BearHeart / Bill Weinman <bearheart@bearnet.com>
- Cc: hartill@lanl.gov, ashishk@wankel.me.cmu.edu, www-talk@w3.org
On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, BearHeart / Bill Weinman wrote: > At 11:32 pm 2/20/96 MST, Rob Hartill spake: > >There are far too many reports which tell us how well a client talks > >to a server that is only a few feet away... not much help unless > > I'm confused. What does this have to do with client performance? > The issues here is not client performance so much as protocol performance (which is often reflected in percieved client performance). Measuring performance on a LAN often gives no indication as to how a protocol performance will perform over a Wide Area network with vastly inferior RTT, bandwidth, and congestion characteristics. That's why all the HTTP-NG measurements made so far have taken place over trans and intercontinental distances (sort of like LANL's usual tests :-) Just because it works on an ethernet on Castro Street doesn't mean it'll work on the internet. --- They say in online country So which side are you on boys There is no middle way Which side are you on You'll either be a Usenet man Which side are you on boys Or a thug for the CDA Which side are you on? National Union of Computer Operatives; Hackers, local 37 APL-CPIO
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