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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by nitrogen on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:25AM (#15912225)
It's fairly straightforward: everyone gets high priority up to X mbits/s with no upstream oversubscription. Everyone gets best effort up to their last mile speed after that. If there's still available bandwidth, everyone gets idle-only traffic without a cap.

You could add more priorities in between, etc. as needed.

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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by SilasX on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:11PM (#15916651)
Then that just means everyone will call their first X mbit/s "high priority" and then relative priorities are unaffected and nothing can be privileged.
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Re:A list of ways to “Break the Internet” for the 48 hours b... by nitrogen on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @06:49PM (#15918788)
That makes no sense. The first X mbit/s will be privileged. If you waste your priority allotment on torrents instead of voip that's your choice, and that choice doesn't affect anybody else.
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