Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:51:44 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> cc: Peter Ford <peterf@microsoft.com>, "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu> Subject: Re: MTU of the Internet?
Now it's been a while since I looked at latency vs transfer rates, so maybe someone who works on this on an everyday basis would like to comment on what ~200 more ms of latency on a 28.8 link would do to throughput end-to-end across the net (totals of something like 350 and 512 ms end-to-end).
We recommend that clients who care about interactive response use small MTUs, and clients who care about download speed use higher MTUs. It seems most of them agree that smaller MTUs improve their interactive response for things like telnet, IRC, MUD, etc., particularly if they are downloading/surfing at the same time. Thx, dennis