On 6/05/2008, at 8:02 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Of course not. Like I said, as an average end-user with 10 Mbps you get to send a maximum of 2500 packets per second. That's plenty to do VoIP, set up TCP sessions or do IM. You just don't get to send the full 10 Mbps at this size.
Hmm, I see value in that. But, good luck trying to convince customers to take a pps limitation in addition to a Mbps limitation, whether they ever exceed that pps or not. You /might/ convince them to take a pps limitation only - but if they want to do 30Mbit (ie 2500pps @ 1500b) then your product needs to support that. Maybe you just start calling "10Mbps" "10Mbps, assuming a 500b average packet size." Anyway, nice idea in theory - putting more real world limitations in to sold product limitations - but I don't see it working out with marketing people, etc. unless someone has been doing it for years already. It'd be good if the world were all engineers though, huh? -- Nathan Ward