Ask HN: How much bandwidth is actually used for sending a single character?

1 pointsby chintan39about 9 years ago

A single character is 1 byte , but how many bytes are actually used for sending a single character? Assuming TCP is used

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maharishi1about 9 years ago

Size of Ethernet frame - 24 Bytes Size of IPv4 Header (without any options) - 20 bytes Size of TCP Header (without any options) - 20 Bytes So total size of empty TCP datagram - 24 + 20 + 20 = 64 bytes<p>total size of TCP datagram with 1 char - 24 + 20 + 20 + 1 = 65 bytes

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