Puzzling TCP performance over 3G / UMTS
- by lemonsqueeze
I'm using 3G as my primary internet connection, and TCP over this thing is getting more puzzling every day. For example:
Downloading from kernel.org is crazy fast:
$wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.6.8.tar.bz2
increases to ~500kB/s after a few secs !
Some servers are incredibly slow, for instance www.graphic-pc.com:Same…