Re: 50Mb across the country in 6 seconds

Unless my Saturday-pre-lunch calculation is not broken, even with MTU
of 1500 bytes, this comes down to some 5400 packets per second
(without protocol overhead), which is a far cry from impossible on a
1Gb/s link.

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Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 (SP R&S)
Senior CCIE Instructor - IPexpert
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:49, Jersey Guy <guy.jersey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Gents. This DBA guy tells me he copied a 50Mb file from his machine
> in New Jersey to a server in California in 6 seconds. I told him that's not
> possible because the smallest link in the path is 1Gb/sec but MTU is 1500,
> so even if you take wire speed, it would be at least 33 seconds before the
> file was copied. B Am I wrong in saying so?
>
> TIA
>
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