Most network people understand the terrible effect delay can have on TCP sessions. TCP must pause data transfers while waiting for ACKs. The more network delay there is, the longer this pause will be.

Take advantage of TCP/IP options to optimize data transmission Your email has been sent By Alex Kuznetsov, Alex Plant, and Alexander Tormasov Last time, we explained how the TCP_CORK option can ...

Hello all,<BR><BR>I recently debugged an intermittent problem downloading large files from the Internet. We have a Hotbrick LB/2 here at work, and it turns out that it is not correctly handling the ...

This doesn't make sense. An ACK packet is about 20 bytes of tcp header, and 20 for IP, basically 40 bytes. The average tcp packet is about 1480 bytes including the IP header. There is just no way acks ...