Re: [tcpm] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes

<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk> Fri, 12 November 2010 09:48 UTC

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> If today a brower opens 10 flows with a server using IW=1 you gets 10 packets equivalent IW

And the browser is ignoring RFC 2068 section 8.1:

   Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of
   simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A
   single-user client SHOULD maintain AT MOST 2 connections with any
   server or proxy.