What Rogers call 'service' [was: Micro Routers (Was: : Raspberry PI (as router))]

[James Knott]

Bob Jonkman wrote:
> On 14/06/2012 3:09 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> Well on my 25Mbit VDSL2 link, I often see 2800KB/s, so the 10:1 is
>> certainly becoming a bit pesimistic.  Not that 2500KB/s wouldn't be
>> sufficient for me to be happy.
>
> I wonder if there's some level of compression being applied to lower 
> levels of the stack, so that the application can actually report a 
> higher throughput than the pipe is capable of delivering directly...

Back in the dial up days, there was Van Jacobson header compression on 
PPP connections, but I haven't heard anything similar on Ethernet.  
However, Rogers has a speed boost function where you initially start out 
at a higher rate and then work down to your rated speed (actually 
bandwidth).
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