15 Dec
2018
15 Dec
'18
5:26 p.m.
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:20:01 -0700, Raymond Burkholder said:
Another aspect is congestion. Large uploads or downloads can cause packet loss (including dropping the pings with which you are testing). Therefore management packets such as these could be marked and processed, on your side at least, with a higher priority.
How much depends on whether the CPE gear has software recent enough to avoid massive bufferbloat.