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Re: [External] Re: 10g residential CPE


From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 12:49:42 -0800


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


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