In message <20040930174641.GC170@celos.net>, Mark White writes:
>Manuel Bouyer writes:
>
>Ok, noted; I'd seen a few recommendations for these, but not
>investigated the hardware much.  The actual cards are D-link
>DFE-550TXs, by the way, with the ste(4) driver.  Could a
>dropped packet cause a second or so wait in the stream?
>

TCP interprets dropped packets as congestion loss, and slows down its 
transmission rate rather drastically.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb