i see nothing wrong with doing this

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:32 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can set a higher priority DSCP value on speedtest.net traffic. I
> tested this on one SM and it works great.  On a busy AP at 9:30pm I was
> getting speedtest results from 12-20mbps.  I set the speedtest traffic
> to DSCP 26 and enable a "medium" priority channel and now it's 34mbps
> every single time without fail (and at my data rate, frame size, etc
> that's all I could ever hope for).
>
> The question is: Would this be evil?
>
> The feeling is that for some customers there's nothing actually wrong
> except they run speedtest.net simultaneously as their XBox downloads a
> game and then call to report "slow" speeds.  The feeling is that it
> would be easier to just let them see a bigger speed test number than to
> educate them (and some will always refuse to be educated).
>
> The evil part is that it would mask an actual congestion problem.
>
> There's also a notion being tossed around the office that our
> competitors are already doing this.  I have no idea if they actually
> are, and I'm also not sure if I care what they're doing.
>
> -Adam
>
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