On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, David Lang wrote:

>> I suspect you guys are going to say the server should be left with a large
>> max receive window.. and let people complain to find out what their issue
>> is.
>
> what is your customer base? how important is it to provide faster service to 
> teh fiber users? Are they transferring ISO images so the difference is 
> significant to them? or are they downloading web pages where it's the 
> difference between a half second and a quarter second? remember that you are 
> seeing this on the upload side.
>
> in the long run, fixing the problem at the client side is the best thing to 
> do, but in the meantime, you sometimes have to work around broken customer 
> stuff.

for the speedtest servers, it should be set large, the purpose is to test the 
quality of the customer stuff, so you don't want to do anything on your end that 
papers over the problem, only to have the customer think things are good and 
experience problems when connecting to another server that doesn't implement 
work-arounds.

David Lang