RE: latency (was: RE: cooling door)

... feed "tcp throughput equation" into your favorite search engine for a lot more references.

There has been a lot of work in some OS stacks (Vista and recent linux kernels) to enable TCP auto-tuning (of one form or another), which is attempting to hide some of the worst of the TCP uglynesses from the application/end-users. I am not convinced this is always a good thing, since having the cruft exposed to the developers (in particular) means one needs to plan for errors and less than ideal cases. Gary