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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by lxgr on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:52PM (#22632619)
This law does not apply to queueing as encountered in routers. It assumes unbounded queues and a poisson arrival process (i.e. a memoryless channel); both assumptions don't hold for packet routers and senders using congestion control (TCP or otherwise).

There is, however, a high chance of encountering buffer bloat if countermeasures are not taken at the chokepoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat

Modern cable modems, for example, are required to implement such countermeasures. My ISP is at over 90% capacity and round trip times are still mostly reasonable. (Bandwidth is atrocious, of course.)

Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by drewbailey on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:34PM (#22633318)
How do you monitor this? The 90% over capacity, would like to see where mine is at
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by lxgr on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:17AM (#22636169)
There might be a way using a cable TV receiver (see my other comment on this thread), but in my case, a sales rep of my ISP just told me on the phone.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by mikepurvis on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:01AM (#22637191)
I have an older modem (DCM476) and it definitely doesn't have this or doesn't have it enabled. I have to use/tune queue management myself on the router side.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by lxgr on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:50PM (#22639060)
Yes, it's mandatory only as of DOCSIS 3.1, and yours seems to be 3.0. (Supposedly it has been "backported" to 3.0, but that obviously would not apply to existing devices certified before that amendment to the spec.)