WAN transfer rates

Tue May 11 08:51:59 UTC 2004

> I realize that transfer rates across the Internet diminish significantly
> with latency, but what's the good answer for someone shrunk down to
> <10Mbps when the smallest pipe between them is 100Mbps and latency is
> <40ms?

Without window scaling (RFC 1323) your max transfer rate at 40ms RTT is

65535*8/0.040 = 13.1 Mbps. So slightly less than 10 Mbps isn't too
unexpected.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no