TCP?  I think you're running Canopy.

Josh Luthman
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On Mar 4, 2015 11:26 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote:

>   No caching.  No prioritization except DSCP for VoIP.
>
>  *From:* That One Guy <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 04, 2015 10:13 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] downloads stalling but streaming, speedtests, etc.
> OK
>
>  youre not caching anything? prioritization?
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I can't figure this out, but it seems like the sort of thing someone else
>> here will say "oh, I know what causes that".
>>
>> I've been tracking a smattering of customer complaints about downloads
>> just stopping, and finally was able to reproduce it.  I Googled for large
>> file downloads and took the first one that came up:
>> https://www.futurehosting.com/network-test-files/
>> and found the downloads would stop repeatedly at the same point.
>> Different for each file and server location, but the same for repeated
>> downloads of the same file.  For example the 100MB file from Michigan kept
>> stopping at 8MB.  It chugged along fine, then slowed dramatically and
>> stopped, with no traffic either direction.  Yet a ping to the same IP
>> address never had a problem.
>>
>> Note it is NOT the computer, the server, or last mile radios.  I was able
>> to see it going only through backhaul radios and routers, no AP/CPE.  And
>> it works fine with the same computer here at my house on AT&T.
>>
>> Tomorrow I need to chase it back toward my network border.  I am not
>> conversant with Wireshark so have not done that yet, am not looking forward
>> to it.  One pesky customer claims to have done that and seen TCP retries
>> and out-of-order packets, maybe he's right, maybe he is just
>> misinterpreting the data.
>>
>> So .............. what can cause HTTP downloads to stall and stop, while
>> other stuff like Youtube and Hulu and speedtest.net are fine?
>>
>>
>
>
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