The invention relates to a method for transmitting data in the form of at least one data packet from a transmitter (E) to a receiver (R) via a connection in the telecommunication network (RI), wherein the transmission of at least one data packet (D) by the transmitter is initiated by taking into account the acknowledgement (ACK) received from the receiver and the inventive method consists in introducing in the transmitter (E) a delay d into the consideration of at least several received acknowledgements in such a way that the transmission of the data packets is spread out.<U/>