Posted by Neredbojias on 04/17/07 20:54

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:37:40 GMT Bernhard Sturm scribed:

> aioe-user wrote:
>> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>>> Scripsit aioe-user:
>>>> 281 byte file instead of 28
>
>>> Are you serious in your ignorance or are you just trolling?
>>
>> Copy/paste/measure will give you the numbers
>
> Just a question: how big is the minimal TCP/IP packet-size? Do you
> really think it makes a difference if you transport 28 bytes instead of
> 128 bytes? With the former you will just have more overhead, that's all.
> IMHO This is purely an academic issue and not of real-world importance.

Years ago I played-around with packet-size at the larger end of the scale
and it made quite a difference on 56k.

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Neredbojias
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