[RndTbl] Shaw packet loss

[Mike Pfaiffer]

On 10-10-19 11:03 AM, Adam Thompson wrote:
> Mike, that sounds more like your gateway router running out of CPU cycles than Shaw doing traffic management.
> I work with an ISP: doing the sort of thing you're describing *is* possible, but insanely difficult and expensive, especially on Shaw's scale.
> I have a 2GHz router, it should handle it - I can test later this week.
> -Adam

	d-link EBR-2310. As a 10/100 router it should be faster than the 
connection I get from Shaw. Transfers on the LAN side are pretty much 
unaffected no matter what I do. No time-outs. No "Can't find server" 
messages. That sort of thing. Then again it's local to the house.

	It looks like it'll be later in the day before I can do the tests 
suggested by everybody. All the tasks in a queue...

				Later
				Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Pfaiffer<high.res.mike at gmail.com>
> Sender: roundtable-bounces at muug.mb.ca
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:57:39
> To: Continuation of Round Table discussion<roundtable at muug.mb.ca>
> Reply-To: Continuation of Round Table discussion<roundtable at muug.mb.ca>
> Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Shaw packet loss
>
> On 10-10-19 10:39 AM, Sean Walberg wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mike Pfaiffer<high.res.mike at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>          Then there is their policy of slowing down the entire connection if
>>> they determine someone is using bittorrent on a LAN (even if the user
>>> caps the up and down speeds)
>>
>>
>> Do you have a source for this? Are you sure it's not because you're starving
>> out your upstream and therefore not able to get ACKs out?
>>
>> Sean
>>
>
> 	Give it a try. Grab a movie or something. Use a bittorrent client
> capable of capping the up and down speed. Ktorrent can do this. See what
> you can get for both up and down uncapped. Then try running say Firefox
> and look at its performance. Stop the bittorrent transfer and look at
> Firefox again in a few minutes. Set up a cap in bittorrent say 10K on
> both the up and down (bear in mind this is supposed to be a
> multi-megabit connection). Restart your bittorrent and see what happens
> with Firefox. You'll notice the bittorrent will transfer to what ever
> maximum you set while other programs will barely function on the
> internet. Local transfers on the LAN are fine though.
>
> 				Later
> 				Mike
>
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