Comment Re:Not actually true, you are doing it wrong... 8- (Score 1) 414
The thing most people don't understand about TCP is that it accelerates linearly and falls back exponentially.
That is the AIMD behaviour of some variants of TCP (reno for example) and only when they have past slow start and are in steady state. This page has some graphs which show the difference in the cwnd behaviour for different TCP variations, it also links to the relevant papers. There is currently a mix of TCP variations in use and not all use AIMD. Linux, for example, uses CUBIC and in the past has used BIC and NewReno as the default TCP variation.
