The Wizard Gap

(TCP over a long path)

Year	Wizards		Non-wizards	Ratio
1988	1 Mb/s		300 kb/s		3:1
1991	10 Mb/s
1995	100 Mb/s
1999	1 Gb/s		3 Mb/s		300:1

The non-wizards are not at all happy

Why are they doing so poorly?