The invention relates to a communication method,
terminal equipment and a
base station. The method comprises the following steps: counting a filling frame containing downlink data within a preset duration, wherein the filling frame is a sub-
protocol data unit containing filling bits; judging whether the downlink
air interface is congested or not according to the counted filling frames; and under the condition that the downlink
air interface is not congested, the TCP connection is reestablished. Wherein the filling bits are
invalid data occupied bits and represent idle resources, and according to the embodiment of the invention, the condition of the idle resources can be obtained by counting the filling frames, and whether the downlink
air interface is congested or not can be judged. For example, if idle resources exist or many idle resources exist, the possibility of downlink air interface congestion is small, TCP connection is reestablished, normal
data transmission can be quickly recovered under the condition that TCP
data transmission is slow, the lagging time of
data transmission is reduced, smooth communication is guaranteed as much as possible, manual operation of a user is not needed, and user experience is improved.