Re: TCP send behaviour leads to cable modem woes

Andre Tomt (andre@tomt.net)
27 Jun 2003 22:43:35 +0200

On fre, 2003-06-27 at 22:24, Svein Ove Aas wrote:
> > http://lartc.org/wondershaper/
>
> I wrote something like that myself once.
> It's a good shaper, but it works by *capping* up/download speeds and
> rearranging the priorities locally, which wouldn't help me a bit.

By capping the speed below the link speed most modems will usually avoid
bursting. IMHO it's mostly a net gain in usability even though you don't
get the same raw download speeds as without capping.

-- 
Cheers,
André Tomt
andre@tomt.net


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