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Old 03-01-2012, 17:27   #156
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Re: Small Download Speed Upgrade

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
The answer is it doesn't. TCP pings either use a SYN and measure time until they receive a SYN/ACK or if a session is in progress they send an invalid ACK and wait for a RST.

Window size, scaling, selective ackowledgement, etc have no impact on these.
ive done some tests to check apart from it a pain in the back side to really change the windows size in linux and windows as they use automatic calculatiosn to adjsut window size to what ti sees as best.... but i did see a difference in ping acklodegements by about 10-20ms but its intial test i will really need to benchmark it witha a clena system and remove all other variables until then ill agree with you it probally doesnt affect
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