On 09/05/2013 12:50:19 PM, Sebastian Kemper wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:03:01PM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > Queing input traffic is hard, since it's already got to you through
> > the bottleneck of your Internet link.
> > 
> > TCP has to "ramp up", starting slow and getting faster as more acks
> > show successful receipt.  If your link to the net is clogged http
> > packets will rarely get through which slows up the "slow start" tcp
> > model.  The solution is to throttle your bandwidth _below_ that of
> > your actual bandwidth.  This allows "extra" "default" packets down
> the
> > pipe to be accepted while "bulk" packets are dropped, making the
> bulk
> > streams slow down and allow room in the pipe for "default" packets.

> I've throttled my up- and download bandwidth. I had tested with
> various
> levels of throttling until my pings came back without lag introduced
> by
> my ISP's queuing. So I guess I'm good in that department.

It would be interesting to know, given the bandwdith you've got,
just how much you've had to discard in order to get this behavior.

> Maybe :) But I'd really love to see how things behave if the bulk
> traffic actually made it into the correct downstream bucket (1:40).

Sorry, I didn't actually look at your config and it's not something
I can pay attention right now.

Karl <[email protected]>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein
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