> 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?
Again, not just WiMAX, but any wireless is far more susceptible to this than wired connections. Cable internet excluded here as it's also a shared medium although as the DOCSIS standard evolves, this is less and less of an issue as the overall capacity of that shared medium increases. And the short answer.....Yes. Tyler Booth // President ph. 503.548.2000 | fx. 503.548.2002 921 SW Washington St, Suite 224 Portland OR 97205 > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
