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TCP breaks down large files into small packets of about 1500 bytes, each carrying the address of the sender and the recipient. The sending computer transmits a packet, waits for a signal from the recipient that acknowledges its safe arrival, and then sends the next packet.

If no receipt comes back, the sender transmits the same packet at half the speed of the previous one, and repeats the process, getting slower each time, until it succeeds.

This means that even minor glitches on the line can make a connection very sluggish. Because Fast TCP uses the same packet sizes as regular TCP, the hardware that carries messages around the net will still work. The difference is in software and hardware on the sending computer, which continually measures the time it takes for sent packets to arrive, and how long acknowledgements take to come back.

This reveals the delays on the line, giving early warnings of likely packet losses. The Fast TCP software uses this to predict the highest data rate the connection can support without losing data.

Since the packets are the same size as those used in TCP, none of the equipment along the internet itself will have to be modified, and no new hardware will be needed on computers receiving the data.

The first practical test of Fast TCP took place in November at a supercomputing conference. Researchers from Caltech, Stanford and CERN near Geneva in Switzerland, sent data 10,000 kilometres from Sunnyvale, California, to CERN at an average rate of 925 megabits per second. Ordinary TCP managed just 266 megabits per second on the same routes.

By ganging 10 Fast TCP systems together, the researchers have achieved transmission speeds of over 8.6 gigabits per second, which is more than 6000 times the capacity of ordinary broadband links.

#1 Voodoo on 05 Jun 2003 - 17:00

its starting now, so if u wanna ask anything about frontpage come join now!

#2 Xeon™ on 05 Jun 2003 - 18:01

Im late.. as usuall

#3 JBElemental on 05 Jun 2003 - 18:37

Damn microsoft! They wont let me join with mozilla.

#4 Tom Servo on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:02

Now I know what I forgot...

(4 replies) #5 pHuzi0n on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:15

Now why would anyone want to use a program that bloats you HTML causing it to be five times larger than it should be and only able to render correctly in IE?

#5.1 [saint dark] on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:17

I do my websites in frontpgae, the code can be cleaned in less than a minute and whout modifications the sites looks as well in my trusty firebird as in IE, so if you have nothing better to do than trolling please leave

#5.2 JaggedFlame on 05 Jun 2003 - 23:16

The code doesn't get extraneously bloated in FrontPage 2003. I guess they finally fixed it.

If it came out a year ago, I might switch to it, but for now, Dreamweaver MX has me in a chokehold.

#5.3 pHuzi0n on 05 Jun 2003 - 23:42

Just take a look at your own site's source. 90% of it is span, font , and paragraph tags that could be removed. You could also clean up the CSS by declaring a couple classes or even redefining the style for certain tags like this:
[edit] PM'd you the code because the BBS won't show it correctly in the news section [/edit]
Hell, you could even get rid of most of those paragraph tags if you got rid of the zero margin crap and used line breaks like they were meant for.

Last edited by 7357 on 05 Jun 2003 - 23:48

#5.4 Stelex on 06 Jun 2003 - 01:33

Phusion, you're completelly wrong. That site is either created with MS Word or the text and tables have been imported (cut-paste) from MS Word. The only thing you were right there is that 'there is " a lot of crap in that code, but that is NOT FP crap, it's Word and developer crap.

The formatting issue is the matter of addressing the developer rather than the front page, it's up to the developer to apply classess and CSS.

FP 2002 is a HUGE improvement comparing to FP98, FP2000 was so-so.

I can't wait to lay my hands on FP2003 as they've abandoned FPextensions and the programm is very likely to be kind of "dreamweaver-light" (not too light, mind you)

And if the price is still at less that half price of DW - whatta hell - the way to go.

(1 reply) #6 kemical on 05 Jun 2003 - 20:21

you have to admit frontpage is pretty powerful

#6.1 blackice912 on 05 Jun 2003 - 21:20

Especially with the new new split screen editing

#7 Angel Blue01 on 05 Jun 2003 - 23:48

Maybe it's just my settings, but FrontPage 2000 doesn't produce a lot of useless coding on my system.

I like it a lot, because its a lot like Word, but it lacks other Office 2000 features, like the Clipboard, and AutoCorrect.

Maybe they fixed that in 2003.

#8 DOCa Cola on 06 Jun 2003 - 00:19

i like frontpage, it helps to quick add some text with formatting, but i also like dreamweaver especially for making tables.

(1 reply) #9 darkmatter on 06 Jun 2003 - 00:32

I like Frontpage2003....very nice program

#9.1 Stelex on 06 Jun 2003 - 01:47

Is there a way to get a free beta version somewhere, somehow ?

#10 nic on 06 Jun 2003 - 05:37

Notepad all the way

J/K..actually it is Ultraedit for me. I like my html and server/client side code to be in COLOR!!! But when FP2003 comes I'll probably try it like all the others.

#11 theh0g on 06 Jun 2003 - 07:12

I kinda doubt Microsoft will make a program that'd create normal standard code that can be edited and added PHP. It'll probably be another crap, promoting Microsoft's own web "extentions", which don't work anywhere else but IE. I'm still gonna try it, but until now, Frontpage was for wannabies.

Last edited by 11188 on 06 Jun 2003 - 07:53

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