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Re: What vexes VoIP users? - Bufferbloat


From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:37:43 -0500


Jim Gettys <jg () freedesktop org> writes:

Now that I have mitigated the bufferbloat disaster in my home cable
service via bandwidth shaping, Skype works sooo much better for
me. This is what devices such as Ooma are doing.  Unfortunately, it
means you have to defeat features such as Comcast's PowerBoost.

Actually not...  if your queueing scheme is smart enough to stay one
step ahead of PowerBoost it works fine.

https://calomel.org/pf_hfsc.html

I run flashrd/OpenBSD 4.8 on an ALIX 2D3.  Love it.

-r



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