The Google homepage is only about 20000 bytes... if we assume an maximum segment size of ~1400 bytes, then 14 or 15 packets is about right. I wouldn't be surpr

The Google homepage is only about 20000 bytes... if we assume an maximum segment size of ~1400 bytes, then 14 or 15 packets is about right. I wouldn't be surprised if Google is sending the packets all at once and ignoring the ACKs altogether. Heck, there's even a 2010 paper from Google on the subject of sending a bunch of packets at the beginning of the connection: An Argument for Increasing TCP's Initial Congestion Window[0] [0]http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36640.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36640.html