Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface

Re:Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface by walrus01 on Sunday April 02, 2017 @05:37PM (#14019172)

Huge variations in jitter that occurs randomly is a hard thing to reliably simulate. For example simulating a US/48-states consumer grade Ku or Ka-band VSAT service ($85-115/mo) which is a highly oversubscribed TDMA network.

When capacity in your particular spot beam is good, latency could be 550 to 600 ms end to end. When it's bad it could be 1300 or 1700ms and will jitter around randomly anywhere in between those two figures.

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Re:Manually Throttle the Bandwidth of a Linux Network Interface by wtallis on Sunday April 02, 2017 @07:41PM (#14019699)

I think your standard for huge variation in latency could use some updating. A factor of 2-4 increase over baseline latency would be a huge improvement for many terrestrial WiFi systems. And services like Gogo in-flight WiFi have been shown to degrade to over 10 seconds of latency when congested.

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