On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Tyler Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just speaking from personal experience here. We provide wireless service to
> hundreds of customers and are quite familiar with Clear's network as well.
> It's -WIRELESS- not WiMAX as a specific technology that is the root of the
> issue, it's a heavily shared medium and susceptible to packet loss, latency
> and jitter all of which will cause poor performance on session based
> connections such as ssh, SIP, RDP, etc. Transactional based traffic such as
> HTTP, SMTP,etc, don't suffer from this.

And these WiMAX issues are beyond TCP's ability to recover from?

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