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mikeash on March 28, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Just one QUIC bit

Back around 2006, I had a RAZR that I figured out how to use to tether my computer onto Verizon’s 1xRTT service. I’m not sure which part of the system was to blame, but something had massive buffers and a strong aversion to dropping packets. If the connection got saturated I could easily see ping times of two minutes or more.

supertrope on March 28, 2018 [–]

To deal with the lossy RF environment, there are re-transmits at the PHY layer. Effectively creating a TCP on top of TCP situation.

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