25 Dec
2020
25 Dec
'20
3:49 p.m.
On 12/25/20 12:40 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
The other aspect of it is that we're doing these downloads while continuing to play other games and chat (both things sensitive to latency). Some have family/roommates in the home, so they may be streaming audio and/or video at the same time. Do we fill up a gigabit? No, probably not... but we'd notice if we had a lot less.
But using the right queuing disciplines it a lot cheaper than the brute force and ignorance of just upping the bandwidth, right? It seems really surprising after almost a decade of discovery of bufferbloat that most CPE are still doing tail drops. Mike