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throwaway132448today at 9:55 AM1 replyview on HN

It’s got to the point where I turn off my WiFi now to do performance-sensitive work, because of the boost that killing all this background rubbish gives. Anything I need online I can just offload to my phone while my computer is offline.


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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 11:24 AM

The problem with doing that, is that the standard TCP timeout is 60 seconds.

All of a sudden, you are beset with 60-second hangs.

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