From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Boxman Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:04:20 +0000 Subject: Re: Fwd: [LARTC] HTB Weird Shaping Question(Bug?). Please Help! Message-Id: <200504271504.20512.jasonb@edseek.com> List-Id: References: <8f60055e05042617472423ecb9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8f60055e05042617472423ecb9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 27 April 2005 14:56, Andy Furniss wrote: > It is very easy to make it look like it though, just start an upload > while downloading something and watch your down rate fall apart. This is > TCP and the fact that adsl modems tend to have huge buffers not the > link. The first thing to do when making a shaping script is priorotise > empty acks - then uploading doesn't trash your download. As much. If you're fully saturating your downstream, too, you're queuing on your ISP and then bulk downloading interferes with interactive traffic. The joys of having an asymmetrical connection, eh? _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc