Re: [tcpm] [Tmrg] Increasing the Initial Window - Notes

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Mark Allman wrote:

> 
> Hi Fred!
> 
>> So, IW=2..4 demonstrably works pretty well everywhere, but IW=10 seems
>> to me only sensible on MPBS and GBPS, not KBPS, scale links.  
> 
> Question: How much do you think we should be able to expect from hosts /
> people connected via 56kbps?  There is a control they can use---the
> advertised window---to prevent IW=10 from being used on traffic sent
> their way.  Is it reasonable to expect outliers such as this to utilize
> such controls and not the defaults?

Not in my experience. They generally don't know much about the network.