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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by linsomniac on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @07:30PM (#24634283)
3. Bufferbloat. It's still a thing. dslreports has a bufferbloat score, one of my coworkers has been really impacted by it. http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by takeda on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @08:03PM (#24634497)
I heard about bufferbloat, but I didn't think it was related to bittorrent maximizing throughput
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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by linsomniac on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:06PM (#24635313)
It depends: packet loss due to bitorrent is a problem, but low loss and high latency makes it dramatically worse, and that is the bufferbloat cast. If you have 1-30 second pings (or I've seen even worse), when doing torrents or other heavy outbound traffic, it falls apart.
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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by Dagger2 on Thursday October 01, 2020 @09:26AM (#24650545)
Even 1 second is already pretty severe bufferbloat, let alone 30 seconds. Your latency should increase by under 25-125ms even with upstream and downstream both running flat out.
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