It may surprise you to learn that more bandwidth does not necessarily mean higher effective WAN throughput. If you transfer a lot of data over a high-capacity WAN, we bet you are not getting the ...

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.

Getting a grip on network performance numbers is one of the most difficult tasks for network managers. Unlike many information technology statistics such as disk space utilization and available memory ...

The TCP window controls the maximum bandwidth*latency product (i.e., maximum amount of data in the tubes at once), so for a given link it will set the maximum data rate. writes to the socket will ...

I'm doing a test between two XP machines (client downloading from an apache web server). The bandwidth is 10mbps, and the RTT is 1 second. The performance is horrible. I have the windows scaling ...