BufferBloat in routers

[lumi]

have you guys looked into this issue at all

quote about bufferbloat

'Now it's a major problem - in fact some of us feel it is the real reason why many of the ISPs think they should be metering your internet connection. A better working flow of packets on the current networks would get rid of many of the problems that metered billing is supposed to cure - things like downloading causing major congestion and slow-downs for others.'

heres some links to get you started

http://gettys.wordpress.com/category/bufferbloat/

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...ferbloat-and-the-network-buffer-arms-race.ars

http://www.cringely.com/2011/01/2011-predictions-one-word-bufferbloat-or-is-that-two-words/

http://digital-rag.com/article.php/Buffer-Bloat-Packet-Loss

 

[lumi]

ref

http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/red-in-a-different-light/

Home router and operating system bufferbloat is becoming much more common and problematic as the uplink bandwidth on ISP’s has increased: for example, on FIOS I observed the bufferbloat problem more in the wireless home router part of the ISP provided device than in the FIOS plant itself.

 

[Shikami]

Honestly, in-my-a-many-a-years, have not experienced one moment of bufferbloat. This includes my year and a half with FiOS, but I do use my own hardware instead of theirs. I am very particular after playing FPS for a very close to 20 years with latency. I have literally called and complained that a router was overloaded on Comcast's network because my latencies were high and packets were dropping. But this is to the extent.

So, I am curious about this because technically I should be experiencing this but I have not yet.