Found this in the depths of my storage. Not sure where its from but might improve the day of some people ^^
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
690 points (99.4% liked)
Programmer Humor
19463 readers
817 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
To be fair, because of window size management it only takes 1% packet loss to cause a catastrophic drop in speed.
Packet loss in TCP is only ever handled as a signal of extreme network congestion. It was never intended to go over a lossy link like wifi.
On the other side of the spectrum packet loss is a key feature of some of the layers below tcp, like path-mtu discovery.