<div>From Jim Gettys of W3C/GNOME/IETF/OLPC fame: <a href="https://gettys.wordpress.com/category/bufferbloat/">https://gettys.wordpress.com/category/bufferbloat/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Figured some of you might find these articles a heavy, but interesting read.</div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; "><i><p style="padding-left: 30px; ">Bufferbloat is existence of excessively large (bloated) buffers into systems, particularly network communication systems.</p>
<p>Systems suffering from bufferbloat will have bad latency under load under some or all circumstances, depending on if and where the bottleneck in the communication’s path exists. Bufferbloat encourages congestion of networks; bufferbloat destroys congestion avoidance in transport protocols such as HTTP, TCP, Bittorrent, etc. Network congestion avoidance algorithms depend upon <strong>timely</strong> packet drops or ECN; bloated buffers violate this design presumption. Without active queue management, these bloated buffers will fill, and stay full.</p>
</i></span></div><div>What I'm interested to know is if any of you have encountered/investigated this yourself or would care to comment further on the validity/relevance of such in an ISP environment approaching NBN speeds.</div>
<div><br></div><div>More info about some of the Netalyzer reports here: <a href="http://www.icir.org/christian/publications/2010-imc-netalyzr.pdf">http://www.icir.org/christian/publications/2010-imc-netalyzr.pdf</a> </div>
<br clear="all"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(136, 136, 136)">Kind Regards,<br>Andrew Cox<br>AccessPlus - Head Network Administrator<br>Ph: 1300 739 822 (7am - 12 midnight AEST)</span><br>