I have an east coast and west coast data center connected with a DS3. I am running into issues with streaming data via TCP and was wondering besides hardware acceleration, is there any options at increasing throughput and maximizing the bandwidth?
Use GigE cards on the servers with a jumbo MTU and only buy IP network access from a service provider who supports jumbo MTUs end-to-end through their network.
How can I overcome the TCP stack limitations inherent in Windows (registry tweaks seem to not functions too well)?
Install a pair of Linux servers and use them to send/receive the data over the WAN. Also, do some googling for Internet Speed Record and read pages like this one: http://www.internet2.edu/lsr/history.html And read up on scaling MTI size with bandwidth here: http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/arguments.html --Michael Dillon