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BT Sues Google for Patent Infringements (Wired)BT Sues Google for Patent Infringements (Wired)Posted Dec 20, 2011 9:43 UTC (Tue) by mchazaux (guest, #64024)Parent article: BT Sues Google for Patent Infringements (Wired)
"and choosing to stream at a different bandwidth"
Isn't it the whole point of TCP - Adapting the bitrate to the bandwidth of the underlying link ?
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BT Sues Google for Patent Infringements (Wired) Posted Dec 20, 2011 13:35 UTC (Tue) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]
As shown by the bufferbload issue, TCP isn't doing a very good job in adaptating itself to the bandwith, so using different policy for different type of connection is sensible (well granting a patent for this is insane, but that's a different issue).
BT Sues Google for Patent Infringements (Wired) Posted Dec 20, 2011 13:49 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
No, because TCP doesn't affect the data itself. This is about, for example, encoding an audio stream at a different bitrate so that less data is actually transferred.
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