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Re: about link delay .
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Shekhar A Amlekar wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've two links one with BW 1MB and the other with BW 0.1MB
> and both having same delay , say 10 msec.
>
> I send a packet on these lines and measure the end to end delay.
> I have found that the packet suffers greater delay on the lower
> BW path.
>
> I was expecting same delay in both cases as the lines are
> operating far below their capacity and their are no queues formed.
>
> Can somebody please explain this ?
This is explained in the very first paragraph of Chapter 8: Delays and
Links in the current ns documentation, which you haven't read.
Clue: try varying the packet size...
L.
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