Find a way to shape bandwidth at your edge/core routers instead of at the tower? Powercode, Azotel, and possibly others will do this.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 7:15 PM, George Skorup <geo...@cbcast.com> wrote: > Is this only from LLNW? I swear I've seen it from other CDNs as well. I > don't see any way around this other than throwing bandwidth at it. And as > you mention, this means upstream bandwidth and backhaul links between > towers. > > > On 7/8/2015 5:50 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > >> This has been discussed in previous threads, but I just got off a call >> with a customer where I was able to identify what content was being >> distributed via LLNW and causing problems. Customer had bought a new Xbox >> and it was downloading game updates. He was complaining that the game >> update seemed stuck getting to 100%, plus Internet on his other devices was >> painfully slow. >> >> LLNW seems to aim for 50% packet loss. I always seem to see almost >> exactly 2X the customer's rate limit hitting our border router. Of course >> this causes all traffic to that customer to experience random 50% packet >> loss, which few applications can tolerate. It is also consuming our >> upstream and backhaul bandwidth beyond what the customer has subscribed to, >> since we do rate limiting at the tower router. >> >> Other than getting a Procera box and setting up some kind of rule to >> catch this at the border (plus maybe a penalty for LLNW being such dicks), >> I don't know what to do about this, but it pisses me off. >> >> > -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi www.mnwifi.com 507-634-WiFi <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi>
