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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: 19 Jul 1996 23:37:30 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Yann Stettler <stettler@cohprog.com> wrote:

> PS : I missed the begining of the thread, can someone tell me
> how all this will affect the networking capacity of my 386 
> computer connected to the internet via a 9600bps modem ?

Terribly. ;-)

The beginning of the thread was a signature telling something like:

``Foozolix beating Barzumix today: TCP latency is 2.3 ns vs. 4.5 ns''

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)