[Bloat] is extremely consistent low-latency for e.g. xbox possible on SoHo networks w/o manual configuration?

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Daniel Sterling <sterling.daniel at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks to all for the input!
>
> Toke, Jonathan -- you were absolutely right!
>
> I sent this email because I -- I thought it inconceivable that "just"
> setting a single bandwidth tunable could both:
> * enforce / properly rate limit inbound and outbound traffic
> * and, simultaneously, *prevent* non-bulk streams from seeing latency.
>
> I know, I know. You've been telling everyone who will listen that cake
> works. I just couldn't wrap my head around that possibly being true --
>
> But boy, I was wrong. cake is as amazing as you say.
>
> I got rid of my complex rules and swapped them out for:
>
> cake bandwidth 60Mbit besteffort internet nat ethernet
>
> Then I monitored my xbox game latency as I streamed videos, etc, to
> generate bulk traffic.
>
> There was no observable latency or jitter, and I did not see any
> issues during actual game-play either.
>
> Once again, I am truly amazed. Thank you to everyone who worked on
> this impressive tool!

This is great to hear! And thank you for providing some awesome "happy
user" quotes! ;)

> Ubuntu 19.10 finally ships with all the pieces in place (kernel, new
> iproute2 package) -- so cake is now finally usable "out of the box"
> for the average linux user. I look forward to telling everyone I know
> to have some cake!

Please do! We still have a few billion devices left to upgrade...

-Toke