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by rxaxm 3669 days ago
> [T]he impact of adding a second evil ESP8266 is much greater than the first one. One possible cause is the exponentially increased probability of having the channel jammed due to simultaneous transmissions on the same channel.

The reason is that TCP connections increase their speed linearly (aka the the first derivative of packet transfer is increasing) until they experience packet loss. If many packets are lost, or if the network is congested, the speed will not increase