On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Christopher Howard
<christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
> For example, at work: if my coworker beings downloading a set of huge
> files, he gets almost all of the bandwidth until the downloads are
> complete. But if I try to download something right after he starts, then
> I only get a small trickle (a few bytes per second) until his downloads
> are finished.
>
> I was wondering if there was some inherent reason for sort of behavior
> in the design of our whole TCP/IP system. Or is that just the way
> cheaper routers and switches tend to work?
In general new TCP connections will jockey with the old, and get at
least some bandwidth, all questions of traffic shapers/tweakers aside.
More details would be helpful. Are you comparing two HTTP connections?
Yours and his? TCP, I presume?
jermudgeon
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