Whatever it is you are smoking, it must be better than what I am smoking. Your response would only apply if you were clogging your own upload pipe. However, at the node level, if the ack doesn't even get to it because of traffic, how can it apply QOS rules? Obviously what your modem does is irrelavent if your neighbor is the one clogiging the upload pipe. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Dier" <dieman+tclug at ringworld.org> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Cc: "Rodd Ahrenstorff" <rahrenstorff at mediaone.net> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:14 AM Subject: [TCLUG] Re: DNS Question! > * Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy at veldy.net> [020118 09:50]: > > Morpheus). When that upload pipe is plugged, the download pipe will stall. > > It won't matter if you have 1Gbps download if you can't upload your acks. > > Please, let us all know where you obtained this crackpipe. > > A) Intelligent QoS can get ACK's queued up before other uploaded > traffic. I don't know if cable modems do this allready, but I guess > they do because I don't see the problems you state. > > B) Anyone who thinks that I'm really sharing *that much* with each > neighbor in bandwidth on a HFC network is mistaken. There really is > fiber out on the curb, ya know. Let's say I share this physical cable > segment with my neighbors, lets say 100 houses in this area, I still > think thats better shared bandwidth charastics than many k12 schools in > the metro area have on their lans (at least at maple grove it is). > > -- > Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ > > the desire for space travel is a metaphor for escape > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >