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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Nope that's probably Nagle and TCP delayed acks misbehaving.
Basic TCP. Window size indicates data that can be sent unacked, it doesn't indicate anything about amount of data that must be sent. In addition it gives the maximum TCP window size, this is a value that changes and starts of far smaller than the maximum due to TCP slow start.
The only loss of efficiency that an overly large window size can cause is where it's an odd multiple that doesn't fit too well with the server's transmit window and even this will cap transfer speeds at marginally below maximum, web browsing doesn't push bandwidth very hard.
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web browsing generally doesnt push bandwiwdth very hard unless oyu have idiot webmaster who design there pages very large makign them have more data than require ie code
thought bbc article on web page growing from i think 50kb to 70kb in year one was quite interesting :0 not sure the exact figure jsut know bbc reported them growing quite a bit in a year i think it had a headline like people aint the only one utting on weight