[45901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Satellite latency
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Feb 27 10:00:34 2002
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To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>,
Tim Devries <zsolutions@cogeco.ca>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:17:37 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:59:36 -0500
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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?
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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