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From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>,
	bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Xfinity Flex streaming box starves on cake?
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 13:15:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eek36sgy.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6096417F0109590F3C6DD6A1@[172.27.17.193]>

Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com> writes:

> I suspect that my Xfinity Flex box has too small an internal buffer and is 
> starving when fed by my cake-enabled OpenWrt router.

From your config you have around 10x the downstream bandwidth you need
for streaming, so unless you are really hitting your connection hard
with other things I would not expect packets to buffer in the
modem/router at all while you're streaming.

So if this really is caused by sqm-scripts (which I think you should do
a few more tests to definitely confirm), I would think it more likely it
was due to some other weird interaction. Streaming box expecting a
certain DSCP marking? Server choking on ACK stream due to filtering?
Hard to say... A packet dump of the stream going to the box while the
black screen happens may be illuminating, but could be hard to pull off
if it's not reliably reproducible...

-Toke

      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-06 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-04 19:26 Kenneth Porter
2020-12-06 12:15 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]

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