In this section, we describe our test-bed and examine the effect of handoffs on TCP throughput. Our MH is a IBM Thinkpad T23 1.13GHz laptop running Red Hat Linux 7.3 with a 2.4.18 kernel. The CH is a 866 MHz desktop running a 2.4.18 Linux kernel. Our server is a 800 MHz desktop running a 2.4.10 Linux kernel.