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Subject: Re: problems achieving decent throughput with latency.
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David S. Miller wrote:
> TCP can only send into a pipe as fast as it can see the
> ACKs coming back.  That is how TCP clocks its sending rate,
> and latency thus affects that.

Wouldn't you just need larger windows?  The problem is latency, not 
bandwidth.

Chris



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