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Re: TCP and WAN issue


From: Joe Abley <jabley () ca afilias info>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:35:37 -0400



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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