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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: problems achieving decent throughput with latency.
To: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com (Chris Friesen)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:11:46 +0000 (GMT)
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> > 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.

Exactly - the original post says that no problems are experienced
using UDP, which backs that up.

John.
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