On Aug 9, 2009, at 6:06 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
I agree with Joe, nobody considers a standalone DSL "modem" or
DOCSIS modem to be the home gateway, the NAT/Etherswitch/Wi-Fi AP is
the home gateway
The standalone modems are the head ends of the congested bottleneck
leading up from the home. They are the devices where buffer size
matters.
[...]
Similarly, Wi-Fi has a system of frame prioritization called WMM
that uses a subset of the 802.11e standard. It's widely supported in
home gateways these days, along with systems for shallow packet
inspection that allow users to boost the priority of Skype and lower
the priority of P2P, for example. Many P2P systems are not well
domesticated.
I think you'll find Skype is P2P.
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