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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 13:21, Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com> wrote:
> Ideally, you may have a path with ample bandwidth such that packet
> losses don't occur and all connections are either application limited or
> receive window limited and congestion control never kicks in. =A0In this
> case, there's no loss and the Internet clearly works.

This situation is not really "ideal" because it indicates an
unbalanced system -- you've probably spent too much on link bandwidth
and not enough on end system performance.