Fwd: [Techtalk] slooow web surfing and many timeouts

[Elwing]

This may only be partially related, but I learnd from my recent traffic 
shaping adventure that many DSL and Cable modems have *huge* buffers in 
their router so that large downloads are faster.  This interferes with 
smaller packets and smaller data flows.

I've seen noticable improvements in my general usage (other than 
bittorrent) since I applied traffic shaping so that I keep the number of 
packets in the DSL modem's buffer at a rate that my connection speed can 
handle.

More information at:
http://nsd.dyndns.org/shapedsl/
(and other sites)

Elwing

Finne Boonen wrote:
>>I don't know if it applies with DSL, but when we
>>find that netsurfing is
>>getting seriously boggy with cablemodem, we reboot
>>both the cable modem and
>>the internal house network router, and that
>>generally cleans it up.
>>Connection quality seems to tend to degrade over
>>time for some reason I've
>>never explored, and rebooting gets you back to
>>square one.
>>
>>--pig
> 
> 
> I have a cablemodem too, and I experience the same
> problem as you. All they could tell me from technical
> assistance was to repeat the same operation you
> mentioned. I haven't investigated deeper on it yet.
> 
> Miry
> 
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