[GLLUG] Avoid Virgin Media

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Fri Dec 21 20:35:17 UTC 2012


On 21 Dec 2012, John Edwards spake thusly:
> One client had a leased line, 10 Mbit/s on a 100 Mbit/s fibre.
> Pretty standard, except that instead having their routers queue
> the traffic over 10 Mbit/s they dropped the packets instead.

Er, isn't that exactly what you're supposed to do in TCP/IP as a
congestion indicator? Queueing packets when you get congested is bad,
bad, bad.

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