Aiming at the performance degradation of transmission performance of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in wireless network caused by the loss packet retransmission mechanism triggered by packet loss, an Adaptive transmission mechanism based on Forward Error Correction (AdaptiveFEC) was proposed. In the mechanism, the transmission performance of TCP was improved by the avoidance of triggering TCP loss packet retransmission mechanism, which realized by reducing data segment loss with forward error correction. Firstly, the optimal redundant segment ratio in current time was selected according to the current network status and the data transmission characteristics of the current connection. Then, the network status was estimated by analyzing the data segment sequence number in the TCP data segment, so that the redundant segment ratio was dynamically updated according to the network. Large number of experiment results show that, in the transmission environment with a round-trip delay of 20 ms and a packet loss rate of 5%, AdaptiveFEC can increase the transmission rate of TCP connection by 42% averagely compared to static forward error correction mechanism, and the download speed can be twice as much as the original speed with the proposed mechanism applied to file download applications.