Hi Bas,

Op di 27 jun 2023 om 14:44 schreef Bas Westerbaan <b...@cloudflare.com>:

> Thanks for preparing the excerpt; this will be helpful for many use cases.
> (For the WebPKI, as you already mention, we also need to consider SCTs and
> realistically crappy networks.)
>
>  "this is LTE in a city", and "this is what a poor-quality rural 3G link
>> looks like". But alas, these don't seem to exist either.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, it will not be as simple as plugging in a single packet
> loss number and then dropping that fraction of packets. Because TCP
> interpets packet loss as congestion, it grinds down to a halt much earlier
> than at a loss of 2%. Instead, lossy links such as WiFi and cellular have
> their own retransmission protocols hidden from TCP.
>

Yeah, I'm all too familiar with wireless retransmission (a previous laptop
had a bad wifi chip that would drop up to 1/3rd of the packets leading to
massive latency spikes). Still, I hope that someone has a good idea on how
to best represent these facets of real-world networking in some way that is
useful for experiments :)

Cheers,

Thom
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