What Can I Do About Bufferbloat?

Re:What Can I Do About Bufferbloat? by ra1n85 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @09:49AM (#17450142)

>Twiddling with QoS might help, but a faster internet connection probably won’t help at all.

The key issue here is contention, or a busy egress interface - that's when buffering occurs. I do not understand why adding capacity, or reducing the probability of a busy egress interface, "won't help at all".

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Re:What Can I Do About Bufferbloat? by tfha on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @09:57AM (#17450187)

The torrenting app will just consume all the extra space, leaving just as little for gaming as there was before.

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Re:What Can I Do About Bufferbloat? by dtaht99 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @10:31AM (#17450471)

totally untrue. fq_codel manages normal torrents just fine in the presence of gamer-style traffic. We tested against torrents in fixing bufferbloat a lot! Pure aqm systems like pie (in docsis 3.1) do pretty well also. cake (per host fq) can make even insane amounts of torrenting (or slashdotting!) bearable.

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Re:What Can I Do About Bufferbloat? by tgb on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @12:35PM (#17451583)

I think you misunderstood the above poster who was talking about the case without SQM (or I'm misunderstanding things because I've never heard any of these terms before now).

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