Re: Improved the internet in our region (was: Representative)

From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 17:17:39 +0000

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 4:42 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Logan,
> At 08:41 24-05-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>>
>> We have a large latency and increasing bandwidth. At the Linux kernel
>> level, you can see work sponsored by Google to make networking
>> "faster". It's very important , as it gives the user a better
>> experience.
>
>
> The average round-trip to 216.58.211.36 takes 173.075 ms when tested on BSD.
> I did the same test on Windows and it took 173 ms. The high latency is
> because Mauritius is an island lost in the Indian Ocean. I do not believe
> that it is possible to fix that by making improvements at the Linux kernel
> level even if that work is sponsored by Google. During a conference I
> mentioned that it is not possible to move the island.
>

I think that the test cases need to be more varied. When I go to a
cyber-cafe, There are lot of users who are making short requests to
viber/whatsapp, and longer requests to synchronise their
mails/facebooks or updating their android apps.

Keeping the latency low when your upload speed is often saturated is a
problem, which has been received more attention these days.

Also, as you are already aware, there have been improvements to TCP
specs such as increasing size of TCP initial window size.

SM, Are you aware of anybody who has assessed the impact of those
changes, once the code end up in production in Mauritian companies ?
Google and the other big companies is pushing for evolution of TCP,
but we got little feedback from Mauritius and other african countries
regarding the impact of those changes.
Received on Sun May 24 2015 - 17:17:53 PST