• @p1mrx@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    One major AAA game update will likely break your connection
    One person in the house uploading anything will cripple your ability to make ANY request

    You are describing symptoms of bufferbloat, not capacity problems.

    • Saik0
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      11 year ago

      You are describing symptoms of bufferbloat, not capacity problems.

      No… I’m not. Downloading a 100GB game from Steam for example will gladly eat the full 50 mbps this person claims is “usable”. A 100GB download would be ~4.5 hours at full speed. With ANY amount of overhead it will be more than 5 hours.

      A download saturating the full connection is a capacity problem.

      To the second point… If you are on a zoom call and are uploading the full 10 mbps of your connection speed. You will have problems uploading requests to fulfill for download.

      Both of these are capacity problems. Not bufferbloat. Quite honestly, this capacity problem can CAUSE bufferbloat. There will be excessive queuing and packet loss.