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From: morgan@jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: NSFNet throughput applauded
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Date: 24 Nov 88 00:24:43 GMT
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Reply-To: morgan@jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan)
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Since no one else has commented on it, I thought I'd voice some
approval of the improvement in service that I've seen since the NSFNet
has come on-line in a big way in the last few months.  When
inter-campus traffic (between here at Stanford and CMU, for example)
went via ARPANet, I would never see better than about 2.5 KBps (that's
thousands of, er, octets per second 8^) throughput for FTP, even at
night.  During the day it was generally worse or unusable.

Now, even in midday I regularly get rates of 12-15 KBps, and the
initial connection sequence is much snappier.  Given that the slowest
link between here and many places is now a 64 KBps T1-divided-by-3
virtual circuit, I guess there's still room for improvement, but it's
still a Big Step Forward.  Kudos to all concerned.  Onward to Gigabits.

 - RL "Bob" Morgan
   Networking Systems
   Stanford