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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:59:36AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:17:37 EST, Jim Mercer said: > > > if you adjust the window size on the sending and receiving systems, you can > > improve this, but this solution is impractical, as you would need to get > > everyone on the internet (or at least all of the webservers and websurfers > > you are servicing) to make adjustments to their local TCP stack. > > > > there are 3rd party solutions which can improve the throughput, but even > > with those, there are still speed of light issues which will cause individual > > throughput limitations. > > RFC1323 support is a 3rd party solution, or does it not solve all the problem > here? its been a while since i looked at it, but i seem to recall there was a lack of implementation/adhereance to that RFC in windows TCP stacks. i think for RFC1323 to be effective, it needs to be working on the sending and receiving systems, not just the intermediary routers. -- [ Jim Mercer [email protected] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying. ]
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