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In the era of 300 bit/s modems, a packet took about four seconds to send, and typical latencies were on the order of of a second, so the performance overhead was not significant. As speeds increase the problem becomes more problematic; at 2400 bit/s a packet takes about 0.55 seconds to send, so about of the available bandwidth is wasted waiting for s. At 9600 bit/s a packet requires only 0.13 seconds to send, so about of the bandwidth is wasted.

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