Interesting issue, I have't encountered it. 3MB Down/384KB Up.

altq on $eth0 priq bandwidth 325Kb queue { q_pri, q_def }
queue q_pri priority 7
queue q_def priority 1 priq(default

What program are you using to measure it? 


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Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:40 AM
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Subject: RE: altq priq Anomaly?

Ingolf Zeiner Petersen wrote:
> Melameth, Daniel D. wrote:
> > > I implemented altq's priq a while back in the hope of "speeding 
> > > up" my overall 'net connection by prioritizing empty TCP ACKs.
> > > However, I noticed that I was never coming close to my 256Kb/s 
> > > upload cap since I did this and looked into it a little bit 
> > > further today.
> I don't know if you've got ADSL, but for my own case I got 1024/256 
> ADSL, and I have actually set the up-limit to 180Kbit/s to get useful 
> latency-rates (together with priq queues). Because empty TCP ACKs is 
> much about how fast the packets get sent to the destination - this 
> becomes relevant.
> 
> Try it, and tell us about your result! :-)

The TCP ACKs are not the issue.  The issue is I never get more than half
of what I set the bandwidth value to.

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