I quote: "The TCP CONGESTIONS-control mechanism throttles a sending process(client or server) when the network is congested between sender and reciever." Hmmm - With my danish-english accent i'll try to explain what I understand: "TCP, bla bla bla, when the network is congested between sender and so on...". what is throttles a sending proces, and why can it have a harmful effect on real-time apps (Bandwidth sensitice apps). Can anyone help me out here?

i dont really have any idea what you're saying but it seems you're having bandwidth problems. the networked computers should be connected through a router or switch not hub. if they are connected through a hub, buy a switch. and all this is if you are having bandwidth problems. good luck anders :)

I'd have to know a little bit more, like what are the circumstances in which you are getting this message, but it sounds like it's explaining to you that when there is network congestion the amount of data you can transmitt and recieve gets reduced. Which is true, very true. And definately affects real-time. Networks in a WAN enviroment have congestion control mechanisms that they report back to the sender and the recieve, hech even your modem has one as well for it's buffer, it can tell you that the buffer is full and throttle you down, so can carrier switches in the internet or WAN networks. Windows (not Microsoft Windows, TCP Windows) also plays a part in this. A window is a setting to say how much can be transmitted before an acknowledgement of reciept of data is required. All that to say, congestion plays $*!! on real-time. D

Thx alot guys... And "D" you pop up everywhere :) The qoutation is from a book: Computer Networking(Kurose) that i'm currently reading. Again I quote: "The TCP CONGESTIONS-control mechanism throttles a sending process(client or server) when the network is congested between sender and reciever." This is a sentance from the above mentioned book. My question is: How does the TCP make a bottleneck(congestion/flow control)? Throttles a sending??? What does that mean? (bear in mind im not english) Thx alot for any answers!