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Re: TCP and WAN issue

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Mar 27 16:36:34 2007

In-Reply-To: <379373.72674.qm@web30813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:35:37 -0400
To: Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On 27-Mar-2007, at 16:26, Philip Lavine wrote:

> I have an east coast and west coast data center connected with a  
> DS3. I am running into issues with streaming data via TCP and was  
> wondering besides hardware acceleration, is there any options at  
> increasing throughput and maximizing the bandwidth? How can I  
> overcome the TCP stack limitations inherent in Windows (registry  
> tweaks seem to not functions too well)?

You might take a look through RFC 2488/BCP 28, if you haven't  
already. The circuit propagation delays in that scenarios painted by  
that document are far higher than yours, but the principles are the  
same.


Joe



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