From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ed Wildgoose <lists@wildgooses.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:24:31 +0000
Subject: Re: [LARTC] TCP window based shaping
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>In my current implementation at home, I use TC/HTB rules to priortise
>outgoing acks. This definately helps esp when doing huge Linux ISO dl's
>through Bittorrent.
>
>Why delay Acks?? Just because you want to delay/make/simulate the normal
>TCP behaviour of making the window smaller?? 
>  
>


...because "we" don't want bittorrent to go faster....

The goal is to slow things down, not speed them up.  Granted though that 
prioritising acks is useful up until the client is using the desired 
amount of bandwidth, after that we want to slow them down again

Ed W
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