Packet Loss & Throughput: the Mathis Formula (Simplified)
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In this lesson
You estimate how much a little packet loss caps one TCP flow on six Pinemoor paths, how long the 48 GiB project copy then takes and how low the loss must be for 100 Mbps to New York.
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Lessons in this course
- Bits vs Bytes: Mbps, MB/s, GB and GiB Locked
- Transfer Time for Files & Backups (and When a Courier Wins) Locked
- Propagation Delay & RTT from Distance (Speed of Light in Fibre) Locked
- Bandwidth-Delay Product & the TCP Window Limit Locked
- Packet Loss & Throughput: the Mathis Formula (Simplified) Locked
- Protocol Overhead & Goodput: Headers, MTU and Jumbo Frames Locked
- Link Utilisation & Queueing Delay (M/M/1, Simplified) Locked
- Sizing a WAN Link: 95th-Percentile Billing (Chart) Locked