Re: problems achieving decent throughput with latency.

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 11:11:46 EST


> > 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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