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| Thread ID: 84863 | 2007-11-21 05:19:00 | Net gridlock by year 2010 | Misty (368) | PC World Chat |
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| 613654 | 2007-11-21 21:46:00 | I have never heard or read of someone using the consecutive words "overhead over". Is the person saying greater than, or more than, or really just - overhead ? Just means IPv6 packet headers are larger than IPv4 ones. Potentially means networks based on IP6 traffic are slower (as larger packets take more time to transmit.) It's not my field, actually, so I don't know how much it would affect real networks - I would think not much |
sprinkles (11943) | ||
| 613655 | 2007-11-22 02:14:00 | "... overhead over ..." might be seem to be a clumsy usage, but it's fair enough. "overhead" refers to the bits added to the data in each packet for addressing and control. IP4 and IP6 both add overhead; IP6 adds more overhead than IP4, so its overhead is "over" that of IP4. :D I don't know how Joe decided that eliminating dialup could solve a network bandwidth problem. We could make huge amounts of bandwidth available, enough for hundreds of years of expansion. by eliminating DSL, and making everyone use dialup connections. :D |
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