[Bloat] Why you need at least 3Mbps upload to get good game performance with ~1500byte packets: Doing the math

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Wed Dec 9 05:52:16 EST 2020


Kenneth Porter <shiva at 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


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