On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Srikanth Sundaresan <srikanth@gatech.edu> wrote:
I do not have a problem with it when we know the effective bandwidth. My question is, what when do not? We cannot rely on volunteers to give us reliable information on that.

I say we turn it *on only while testing*. That too, after we get an idea about each user's bandwidth. THis is feature that, in its current form needs to be tailored to each user. It is not a good idea to give everyone a default setting - as I mentioned in my previous email, unless we hit bulls eye (unlikely), it is either crippling, or useless.
 
It could potentially seriously downgrade user experience.


What part about 800ms latencies under load without QoS isn't about  a degraded user experience?

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