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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 23:39:48 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: problems achieving decent throughput with latency.
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   From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
   Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 23:50:05 -0800
   
   Why would it use the maximum socket for a connection with low to
   no acks, ie low to no throughput?

You open up the congestion window by ACK'ing a few windows
worth of data, then you stop ACK'ing.

I'm sorry if that wasn't obvious.
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