On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:10, Jim Gettys wrote:
> I fear these may be large line rate bursts
> hitting the broadband head end, and then propagating to the home router
> queues... under some circumstances (e.g. the RTO gets driven up due to
> bloat, so the congestion window doesn't come down very fast in the idle
> periods).  Help from people who know TCP better than I do (which isn't
> all that well), gratefully appreciated.

Justin McCann already provided the reference to RFC2861...

Lars