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Benchmarks
How we test, how to read a vendor's test, and how to run your own.
2 min readFive questions to ask about any file transfer benchmark
Vendor benchmarks, ours included, are only useful if you can tell what was measured. Five questions that separate a result you can reason about from a number on a slide, and how our own published test answers them.
3 min readWhy a gigabit line delivers a fraction of that across an ocean
The arithmetic behind slow long-distance transfers: how latency and packet loss cap a single TCP connection regardless of link speed, with the formula, a worked example, and what a UDP transport changes.