How to Boost Linux Server Internet Speed with TCP BBR | Linux Today

How to Boost Linux Server Internet Speed with TCP BBR

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Ravi Saive
Aug 24, 2017

BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT) is a relatively new congestion control algorithm written by software engineers at Google. It is the latest solution out of Google’s persistent attempts to make the Internet faster via the TCP protocol – the workhorse of the Internet.

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Ravi Saive

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