I'm not graphing at the SM by snmp. Maybe I should be.

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Kurt Fankhauser
Wavelinc Communications
P.O. Box 126
Bucyrus, OH 44820
http://www.wavelinc.com
tel. 419-562-6405
fax. 419-617-0110

> On Apr 26, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Do you have a graph via SNMP of the actual SM traffic?  See if the AP is only 
> scheduling the configured amount of traffic to the customer, and throwing 
> away the rest.  If yes, the Procera probably gives you the tools to limit 
> this traffic to X% of the customer’s subscribed rate, although it will still 
> consume your upstream bandwidth.  If not, then your suspicion of Cambium 
> sustained rate limit not working might be true.  We don’t rely on that 
> feature as a primary means of rate limiting customers, so I wouldn’t 
> necessarily know if it is broken.  If it is broken, I’m wasting a lot of 
> money buying SM20’s.
>  
>  
> From: Kurt Fankhauser
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 11:16 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 450SM sustain bucket throttle not working..
>  
> I'm measuring at the upstream router which is actually a Procera Box. (not 
> actually a rotuer) Customer called last night complaining speeds were 
> horrible....
>  
> 
> Kurt Fankhauser
> Wavelinc Communications
> P.O. Box 126
> Bucyrus, OH 44820
> http://www.wavelinc.com
> tel. 419-562-6405
> fax. 419-617-0110
>  
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sorry to answer a question with a question, but are you measuring at the SM, 
>> or at some upstream router?
>>  
>> The reason I ask, is I have seen some CDN traffic that does not seem to 
>> follow traditional TCP congestion control.  It will send at twice the rate 
>> limit, causing 50% packet loss to its own traffic and everything else to 
>> that same subscriber.  Evidently some TCP geniuses have decided to use 
>> latency rather than packet loss as the indicator of congestion, and that the 
>> objective is goodput not throughput.  Works for last mile technologies like 
>> T1 and DSL with big buffers at the head end of the fixed speed serial 
>> connection, not so good with the type of rate limit queues we tend to use 
>> unless we can provision the queues with big buffers.
>>  
>> Probably not your problem, but I thought I’d bring it up just in case.
>>  
>> From: Kurt Fankhauser
>> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 10:50 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [AFMUG] 450SM sustain bucket throttle not working..
>>  
>> I have a 450 SM that is rate limited in the SM to 1500kbps download on the 
>> sustain side. I noticed last night that this customer was pulling a steady 
>> almost 3mbps download for several hours on end. How is this possible? Is 
>> there a problem with 13.2 firmware? Its a 3.65ghz SM.
>>  
>> see attached.
>> 
>> Kurt Fankhauser
>> Wavelinc Communications
>> P.O. Box 126
>> Bucyrus, OH 44820
>> http://www.wavelinc.com
>> tel. 419-562-6405
>> fax. 419-617-0110
> 
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