Topic: Fascinating read about solving 1980s internet when was no congestion avoidance. (Read 23519 times)

Chrysalis · « **on:** October 07, 2025, 05:57:22 PM »

In 1986 The internet with its massive 32kbps capacity, started falling to just 400bps throughput, because it couldnt handle congestion gracefully, it would just get overwhelmed by retransmission requests.

Read up of the solution here, which is some of the early development of TCP.

https://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf

Alex Atkin UK · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2025, 02:51:46 AM »

This is how I heard about this, a bit easier than reading about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edUN8OabWCQ

kitz · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2025, 09:10:12 AM »

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Chrysalis

Fascinating read about solving 1980s internet when was no congestion avoidance.

Alex Atkin UK

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kitz

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