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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>,
	Bufferbloat Mailing List <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Why you need at least 3Mbps upload to get good game performance with ~1500byte packets: Doing the math
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:52:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dprp7z3.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8E303BEF17675E3847CBD76C@[172.27.17.193]>

Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com> writes:

> <https://forum.openwrt.org/t/why-you-need-at-least-3mbps-upload-to-get-good-game-performance-with-1500byte-packets-doing-the-math/81240>
>
> Upstream article:
>
> <http://models.street-artists.org/2020/12/05/why-gaming-on-a-dsl-line-is-terrible-and-the-math-says-theres-nothing-you-can-do-about-it/>

Good points, but doesn't mention options to decrease the packet size
(lower MTU/MSS clamping)... :)

-Toke

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-09 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-09  3:20 Kenneth Porter
2020-12-09 10:52 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2020-12-09 11:06   ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-12-09 11:20     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-12-09 11:27       ` Sebastian Moeller
2020-12-09 12:17         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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