From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
Cc: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>,
bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Steam In Home Streaming on ath9k wifi
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 14:13:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw7YqeAtOjXbif4EM6qP4nF3y6eP0THvKmLb4Pc9oQN+Ww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAHKNRF6xJf_drbujqV0B8nco-1Cmh49eRYn==CtcmQ4P9Fn6g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Right, no idea how Windows drivers behave. But odds are that the
>> bottleneck is at the client, since that often has worse antennas than
>> the AP. If you're in a position to take packet captures at both clients
>> and AP you may be able to figure it out; may require tightly
>> synchronised clocks to do properly, though.
>
>
> I could try running wireshark on both, it's a ton of packets, and I'll be
> honest, I don't know that *I* would know what to do with them.
>
>>
>> How do you see the latency spikes? An end-to-end ping? You could try
>> pinging the AP from both clients and see which one sees the latency
>> spike...
>
>
> steam homestreaming has an in game performance monitor, it shows you your
> ping, estimated bandwidth, and how fast it's currently streaming. So when
> the game stutters I also notice a recorded ping/latency increase. Sadly
> though, it doesn't include highly detailed logs to my knowledge.
>
>> Yeah, those are link-layer retransmissions. The ath9k driver sometimes
>> retries individual packets up to 30 times, which is obviously way too
>> much...
>
>
> that's fun...
Ideally we should retry at most, twice, at the lowest rate, and a bit
more as we go up.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-19 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-18 22:14 Caleb Cushing
2017-11-19 16:28 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-11-19 21:18 ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-19 21:27 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2017-11-19 22:03 ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-19 22:13 ` Dave Taht [this message]
2017-11-21 19:08 Hal Murray
2017-11-22 10:31 ` Neil Davies
2017-11-23 17:48 ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-24 9:20 ` Hal Murray
2017-11-24 9:34 ` Neil Davies
2017-11-26 7:25 ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-26 7:29 ` Caleb Cushing
2017-11-26 7:55 ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 10:05 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-26 10:53 ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 10:55 ` Jonathan Morton
2017-11-26 11:54 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2017-11-26 13:03 ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 13:05 ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 13:13 ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2017-11-26 17:53 ` Dave Taht
2017-11-26 18:43 ` Jan Ceuleers
2017-11-26 23:11 ` Dave Taht
2017-12-04 7:24 ` Caleb Cushing
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