network speed question

[Sean McMahon]

What is large window support?
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From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: network speed question


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> I do not profess to be an expert, but there are a lot of parameters that
> effect the transfer speed of tcp/ip and also of ethernet. For example,
> look at things like MTU, and large window support. I'd be interested to
> know if making the settings mimic as closely as possible would make the
> transfer speeds similar.
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> Joseph C. Lininger
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> And so it came to pass that on Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Lorenzo Taylor said
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> > Hmm.  I could try a switch to see if it works.  But that still doesn't
> explain
> > why the transfer was so much faster when using XP on the laptop side
> than when I
> > am using Linux on both computers.
> >
> > Lorenzo
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