alt Hacker NewsThat's just one bottleneck. The other issue is head-of-line blocking. When there is packet loss on a TCP connection, nothing sent after that is delivered until the loss is repaired.
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anonymousiam • 07/31/2025
TCP windowing fixes the issue you are describing. Make the window big and TCP will keep sending when there is a packet loss. It will also retry and usually recover before the end of the window is reached.
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Whats the packet loss rate on modern networks ? Curious.