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 To: Ian Smith Subject: Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell! (fwd) On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Ian Smith

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 neit

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 wrote: > > On 2010-06-16 02:51, Modulok wrote: > > > Yo, > > > > > > I have a FreeBSD box acting as a router between me and the Internet. >

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-20 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 th

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 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

Re: Online gaming and file downloads - latency hell!

2010-06-18 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:11:48 +0200 Morgan Wesström 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 a really high latency

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 pl

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 traffic