gees - if the satellite is that low you'd better duck  :-)
Typically I see a 650ms delay on a round trip AU <-> US
which entails a path of AU -> spaceraft -> US -> spacecraft -> AU
regards,
    Geoff
At 10:27 AM 11/10/97 -0800, Jon Mansey wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Please excuse a newbie question, but where does the 0.6 derive from in
>these calcs? Is it the latency introduce by the trip up and back to the
>satellite? If so it seems rather high, my calcs give me more like 250ms.
>
>Puzzled,
>
>>     to 65535 x 8/0.6s = 870Kbps. Solaris TCP/IP stack is able to open both
>>     the transmit window/buffer and receive window/buffer upto 65535 bytes.
>>
>>     So the maximum achievable throughputs will look like the following:
>>
>>     Transmit_TCP_stack         Maximum Throughput
>>     Microsoft TCP:               approx. 109Kbps
>>     Solaris TCP                 approx. 870Kbps
>>
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