the best laid plans
Requests are small messages ( bytes) transmitted using TCP over ATM
Everything seemed to work fine on-campus
Over the satellite, we were expecting to see delays of 1/2 sec in command execution
Instead we saw ɭ second delays: much more than we were expecting & hard to use. Uh oh.
My job (with 2 hours of satellite time ticking away…): figure out why this was happening