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From: prindevi@INRIA.INRIA.FR (Philippe-Andre Prindeville)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  When is a link saturated?
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Date: 16 Jan 91 00:29:08 GMT
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	Tsui noted that priority queuing is especially useful in international
	networks, where bandwidth is often most expensive.

Wow!  That is a new one on me.  Can someone explain how ordering
packets (but not discarding) can save bandwidth?  Assuming that
the number of retransmissions aren't influenced, but merely that
interactive applications observe smaller round-trip times, the
total throughput should be the same...

I must be missing something obvious.  Can someone enlighten me
(and possibly others)?

Thanks,

-Philip