As quoted from William D Ivancic:
> At 03:09 PM 3/30/99 -0800, Jon Mansey wrote:
> >Can anyone point me to some research or tables showing how BER affects
> >TCP/IP thoughput?
> >
> >At the same time, does anyone have any real world experience of what is an
> >acceptable BER to shoot for in designing end-end sat links for TCP/IP.
>
> 1E-8 or better. It really depends on the length of transfer. As soon as
> you get an error, your window is going to half it size due to congestion
> control. So for EXTREMELY long file transfers, you need near error free
> links.
Or you enable SACK (or any of its newer brethren), which is highly
recommended. For some data points, have a look at my ARTES3
presentation on:
http://www.estec.esa.nl/artes3/workshop/gertjan.html
Regards,
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-- Gertjan van Oosten, [email protected], West Consulting B.V., +31 15 2191 600
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