Re: OS/2 2.11: TCP/IP over 384 kb/s satellite link

From: Hans Kruse ([email protected])
Date: Sun Jan 11 1998 - 19:48:23 EST


> Why a TCP window of about 26K is needed ?
> Can you show me your calculation...
> Thank you very much.

You must be able to transmit for a full round-trip time without exhausting
the window.

384kbps * 560ms = 215kbits = 25900 bytes

(1) 560ms is the roundtrip time I have pretty consistently found for the
router-geostationary orbit-router (and back) round trip

(2) k = 1000 here.

Hans Kruse, Associate Professor and Director
McClure School of Communication Systems Management, Ohio University
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