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(ASCEND) Quake and latency on Ascend
As a result of the discussion about LQM here, I was looking at some of the
behavior of the MAXs when they are under load. Not overall load, but per
session load.
Long ago I had noticed that MAXs have a tendency to have ping times rise
ever higher before they start losing packets. This reminded me of an
issue where Quake players would see a fair ping (300ms) from "Qspy", but a
yucky 3000ms ping from Quake when actually playing. I had the theory that
the difference could have been from the RAS buffering packets instead of
dropping them. Whether I was right isn't my question.
The question. Which is better: Dropping overflow packets immediately, or
buffering them for God knows how many seconds?
I understand the MAX may find buffering better because of the possibility
of having more bandwidth just a few B-channels away. But is that the
reason? Are there better ways?
----------------- Brian Curnow ----------------
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