Every year at the Plan9 International Workshop, we tussle with how to improve networking performance, particularly for streaming. Every 9p request needs to be rec&#x27;d. There&#x27;s no look ahead. This makes it particularly unsuitable for streaming, for instance.<p>We have tried queued 9p responses, multiple 9p packets in the same tcp packet, extensions to the protocol. Nothing seems satisfactory enough to make it into the core.