Cox cable SpeedBoost irritations
Cox Cable (which I am, unfortunately, a customer of) has a delightful SpeedBoost technology.This technology works by providing a lot of bandwidth at the beginning of a given TCP session, then choking it down as time goes by. While this does not make a difference in many applications, one thing that is killing me is [...]
February 11, 2009
• Tags: Cox, internet access, Netflix, why • Posted in: Blogging, Technology • 1 Comment
VMware Beaconing
I just read Beaconing Demystified: Using Beaconing to Detect Link Failures, and I have to say I am still confused. Why do this? With 3 or more uplinks in a team, we can pin point failures of a single uplink. With 2 uplinks in a team, we can detect downstream link failure, but we don’t [...]