Just a small nit:
[email protected] writes:
...
> As Lloyd Wood and others have pointed out, this figure gives the raw packet
> error rate. The impact on the transport protocol (TCP, what have you) is
> different. For example, if your TCP MTU is say 576 octets, and the size of
> the packets at layer 2 over the radio link are 100 octets we could compute:
> (a) approx 40% of the TCP packets would be less than 100 octets. These map
> to acks, HTTP get messages, cache validation queries, etc. These would show
> the b*p packet error rate.
The times when I have looked, I haven't seen an HTTP get message which
is smaller than 100 bytes. I doubt if this is even possible. Off the
top of my head, typical sizes are 200-500 bytes.
--Jamshid
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