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Re: wanted: wireless magic tricks

  • From: Christopher A. Woodfield
  • Date: Thu Aug 16 13:47:23 2001

What you'll need to correct that is a way to increase the TCP window size 
of the hosts, thus reducing the time spent waiting for ACKs to be 
returned. 

-C

> Catch is, the bw x delay product will kill you on these links if you run TCP
> sessions and you won't get anywhere near line rate.  There's a company in 
> Boulder which used to make a widget for high speed data transfer across sat 
> link exactly for this purpose.  Can't remember the name, should be able to 
> find them easily though if they're still in business as it has been a few years
> since I last touched this stuff...
> 
> -- 
> Christian Kuhtz <[email protected]> -wk, <[email protected]> -hm
> Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
> "I speak for myself only."

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