On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:52:03 UTC, Brad BARCLAY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This, however, shouldn't affect the quality of downloaded data. The > TCP protocol contains a 16-bit one's compliment checksum value in each > and every packet, which is used by the receiver to either accept and > acknowledge (if the checksum is correct), or dump and await > retransmission. Thus, if there are transmission errors, the TCP/IP > stack should be detecting them and rejecting the erroneous packets -- > and should keep rejecting them until a good packet arrives. If the > degredation is serious, what _should_ happen is that the connection will > appear to be extremely slow -- you shouldn't wind up with corrupted data. > > Yes, you make perfect sense. In fact my own experience was a choking off of the data stream, when my integrity limit was surpassed, yielding very low throughput until I manually set the NIC away from autodetect. Bill's CRC problem is a VERY intriguing one. eric...
