[Cake] Getting Cake to work better with Steam and similar applications

Jonathan Morton chromatix99 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 13:36:28 EDT 2017


> On 20 Apr, 2017, at 19:05, Dendari Marini <dendari92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just did quick test with your settings. First thing I noticed is my final download bandwidth is about 12Mbps, Steam on PC1 downloads at 1.4-1.5MB/s while downloading a file on PC2 seems to max out at ~250KB/s. From my understanding I should see each PC download at ~700KB/s, or am I mistaken?

It should be possible to get equal bandwidth to each PC, yes.  It could be that with such a strongly asymmetric connection, Cake still isn’t actually the bottleneck in the download direction.  Try setting it to 10Mbit and see if that brings it under better control.

 - Jonathan Morton



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