Looking for networking solution.

[Hans Lambermont]

Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-Jun-15 12:06:18 +0200, M.Jessa wrote:
>> I am looking for solution I could implement on a link with a huge
>> latency when ping replies can go up to a few hundred miliseconds, e.g
>> sateliete links.
> 
> What is the problem you are trying to solve?  Satellite links have a
> fairly constant round-trip delay and the RTT calculations built into
> TCP will happily compensate for this.  As long as the TCP window size
> is larger than the delay*bandwidth and the packet loss probability is
> well below 1 packet per window, TCP should work fine.

There's a lot to improve on in this situation, See f.i.
http://www.tellitec.be/tellinet/enhanced.html

-- Hans

Disclaimer: I have a business relation to Tellitec.
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