[Bloat] Curious bufferbloat on DOCSIS connection with many downloads

[Michael Richardson]

Arie <nospam at ariekanarie.nl> wrote:
    > I'm puzzled by this result, somehow sending 300KB/s of empty packets
    > upstream drastically improves the latency of my connection when it's
    > receiving many downloads.

Maybe not exactly power save, but perhaps asking for the upstream bandwidth
gets the CMTS to notice you more often and schedule a dump of it's queue of
traffic for you.

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