[clue-tech] Downside of increasing TCP window size?

[David Anselmi]

Jim Ockers wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We have a very low bandwidth, very high latency TCP/IP connection
> that we're trying to optimize.  Is there a downside to using large
> TCP windows on an Important web server, when only a few of the clients
> are on high latency connections and most clients are on low latency
> connections?

Can you set up a different server to mirror the site to the high latency 
clients?  Then you could optimize for both.  I guess you only get one 
set of knobs for TCP so you couldn't do this with different NICs or IPs 
on your current server.

Dave