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bexp
awesome explanation on how TCP slows everything down, I'm going to try this PacketZoom SDK mentioned in the article.
chetanahuja
This is a repost... didn't get enough love last week. Maybe if it was renamed SlowStartJS or something....
patkennard
Google must be working on something to fix slow start already, if not then I'm sure Hooli XYZ has something in the works!
chetanahuja
Well there's QUIC. But it seems like it's focused on replacing HTTP/SPDY/HTTP2 and not really interested in doing mobile specific optimizations. The OP blogpost is describing a technique involving taking account of specific properties of mobile networks to tune slow start for each individual connection.
rp248
Does TCP's slow start affect each of my requests? i.e irrespective of the throughput it sees for a prior request?
chetanahuja
That entirely depends on what your client library (http client in most cases) decides to do and whether the server sides plays well with persistent connection. TCP protocol itself has no concept of "a request" really. It's just a streaming data protocol in both directions.
[dead] rp248
Does TCP's slow start affect each of my requests? i.e irrespective of the throughput it sees for a prior request?