Re: Traffic shaping

Steven Kurylo wrote:
> The problem is exactly what I've already stated. I have a symmetrical
> connection. For example, I can get 2Mb in either direction. So I
> could have two downloads at 1Mb each. Or two uploads at 1Mb each. Or
> one upload and one download at 1MBps each. It doesn't matter which
> direction, but my total throughput isn't going over 2Mb.

Ahh. In that case, you should let TCP do its thing (since it'll
automatically reach an equilibrium state between outgoing and incoming
traffic), and otherwise throttle UDP traffic (which does not have
built-in flow control). You might want to throttle the max out both in
and out going to be 1.9Mbps if this symmetrical connection is some piece
of equipment like a cable modem or DSL device which, instead of dropping
packets at the max, simply queues them up.
Received on Sun Jul 23 21:13:22 2006