[Bismark-devel] about ready to do another build

[Srikanth Sundaresan]

On May 21, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Dave Taht wrote:

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> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Srikanth Sundaresan <srikanth at 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.
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> 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.
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> It could potentially seriously downgrade user experience.
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> What part about 800ms latencies under load without QoS isn't about  a degraded user experience?

If the cost of reduced upload speed,  which could perhaps be as much as 30%, (if the default is 340kbps - the DSL connection here in my B&B gets up to 450k), can't be reduced, I certainly think that it's the higher price to pay than reduced latency.

- Srikanth