Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I've read about people trying to throttle outgoing ACKs to slow down their download but that still wouldn't rearrange any incoming data packets so I don't see how that would help. I haven't tried it myself though but neither have I read about anyone successfully accomplishing this.

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-21 Thread Morgan Wesström
On 2010-06-21 07:50, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 315, Issue 11, Message: 9 On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:11:48 +0200 Morgan Wesstr?m freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote: Yo, I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I've read about people trying to throttle outgoing ACKs to slow down their download but that still wouldn't rearrange any incoming data packets so I don't see how that would help. I haven't tried it myself though but neither have

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! (fwd)

2010-06-21 Thread Ian Smith
Hi .. as suggested, posting this discussion to ipfw@ too .. thanks, Ian -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:00:14 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo ri...@iet.unipi.it To: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au Subject: Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! (fwd) On Mon

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-20 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 315, Issue 11, Message: 9 On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:11:48 +0200 Morgan Wesstr?m freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote: Yo, I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. Whenever someone on the

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-18 Thread Morgan Wesström
On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote: Yo, I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people who like to download large files and play

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:11:48 +0200 Morgan Wesström freebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz wrote: On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote: Yo, I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other connections have

Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-15 Thread Modulok
Yo, I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. Whenever someone on the local network downloads something, the other connections have a really high latency. A second or more. For people who like to download large files and play online games, it's not good. I tried