I'm looking for people who may have the same problem as I. Let me describe it.
When I'm at my parents house using the OpenBSD laptop, my TCP connections from there experience degragations, lost and dropped packets somewhere in the Internet, this causes retransmissions in TCP which I have tracked. The other computers in that household are Linux and Mac OS X and do not have these symptoms. There is hints that it may be the home router a Fritz!Box but I have compared tcpdumps and packet dumps from the routers packet dump interface and I do see the packets dropping before it (unless that router lies in its pcap file), so unseen by it. Causing me to think that the degragation is in the upstream network. That upstream network happens to be Deutsche Telekom, germanys largest provider. I know it may sound crazy that these people degrade TCP, based on some TCP OS signature, but could it be? So I'm looking for more people who use DTAG who have experienced degragations (mostly noticed in running screen or tmux and having switched windows and it's doggedly slow due to retransmissions). What sort of home router do you use? I'm also looking for Fritz!Box users with FritzOS 6.x firmware who have these degragations and aren't necessarily on DTAG's network. I guess I could change routers to find out but what if it's a conspiracy? Also I have created gif tunnels and experienced no degragations which to me says there is a Deep packet inspection on native TCP packets, somewhere, and the degragation. I invite the company Genua to look into this too since they use OpenBSD afaik and if they are losing customers over this it could be bad for their core business. BTW tickets to DTAG were opened and closed, and opened to AVM the router manufacturer but closed on my behalf because the packet dump revealed that drops were not on that router. Regards, -peter
