| (Upgrading the link would simply shift the plateau to whatever link
| speed we pick.
This is a useful _feature_ of good TCP implementations: bulk
transfers settle into equilibrium at the bottleneck bandwidth,
and competing bulk transfers share the bottleneck very fairly.
Nice flat plateaus that remain flat at various timescales
are hugely desirable in a statistically multiplexed network.
The interesting thing for you to measure is not traffic load
at the bottleneck, but rather packet drops and queueing delay.
Even more interesting, if you can measure it, is a count
of the number of DUPACK/REXMT pairs, which represent network waste.
| There is no limit to the need for BearShare/Kazoo
| traffic.
...or hyperbole. :-)
Sean.
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