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[Jonathan Foulkes]

Thanks for sharing that Toke, it is a very good animated explainer. I’ll be linking to it in some of my FAQ’s and articles.

A key point of this video is to illustrate capacity with large vehicles, that move much content, but themselves do not have ‘quick’ transit, or round-trip times. That correlates nicely with the metrics for RTT and CWND in speedtests.

Examples focusing on ’top-speed’ of vehicles is missing a bit of the point that Internet ’speed’ metric is truly more about capacity rather than responsiveness. I’ll be re-thinking the use of those.

Cheers,

Jonathan

> On Feb 5, 2019, at 3:48 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Foulkes <jf at jonathanfoulkes.com> writes:
> 
>> One analogy I’m have her illustrate depicts an ambulance vs a Ferrari
>> getting through traffic. The ’slower’ one has an advantage, it has
>> traffic rules on its side ;-)
> 
> The RITE project already did the F1 car vs bus in their video back in
> 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1a-eMF9xdY
> 
> I like the ambulance analogy, though :)
> 
> -Toke