From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Daniel Sterling <sterling.daniel@gmail.com>,
Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] is extremely consistent low-latency for e.g. xbox possible on SoHo networks w/o manual configuration?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:23:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rqpwoa0.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZMiucmy3w7k_jqr3ONd=OJ2c_=s7p699h6HJvRLE6fyoSc1w@mail.gmail.com>
Daniel Sterling <sterling.daniel@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks to all for the input!
>
> Toke, Jonathan -- you were absolutely right!
>
> I sent this email because I -- I thought it inconceivable that "just"
> setting a single bandwidth tunable could both:
> * enforce / properly rate limit inbound and outbound traffic
> * and, simultaneously, *prevent* non-bulk streams from seeing latency.
>
> I know, I know. You've been telling everyone who will listen that cake
> works. I just couldn't wrap my head around that possibly being true --
>
> But boy, I was wrong. cake is as amazing as you say.
>
> I got rid of my complex rules and swapped them out for:
>
> cake bandwidth 60Mbit besteffort internet nat ethernet
>
> Then I monitored my xbox game latency as I streamed videos, etc, to
> generate bulk traffic.
>
> There was no observable latency or jitter, and I did not see any
> issues during actual game-play either.
>
> Once again, I am truly amazed. Thank you to everyone who worked on
> this impressive tool!
This is great to hear! And thank you for providing some awesome "happy
user" quotes! ;)
> Ubuntu 19.10 finally ships with all the pieces in place (kernel, new
> iproute2 package) -- so cake is now finally usable "out of the box"
> for the average linux user. I look forward to telling everyone I know
> to have some cake!
Please do! We still have a few billion devices left to upgrade...
-Toke
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-20 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-12 4:55 Daniel Sterling
2020-02-12 11:41 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-02-12 15:51 ` Jonathan Morton
2020-02-14 14:18 ` Michael Richardson
2020-02-20 1:02 ` Daniel Sterling
2020-02-20 10:23 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
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