> Chances are that part of the reason you had to go to a multi-homed > connection was that your router configuration was suffering from > bufferbloat, and so despite you having a decent connection to your ISP, you > were experiencing congestion. This is, unfortunately, very typical of home > routers nowadays.
No, my connection to my first ISP is 1.5Mbps downstream. The 2nd connection is 30Mbps downstream. A single Netflix stream had no difficulty taking up the entire 1.5Mbps. Unfortunately, the technology used to offer the 1.5Mbps service could only be upgraded to a maximum of 3Mbps. I figured Netflix could probably overrun that too, so I went with the 2nd connection. I could have just switched everything to the 2nd connection (my routers haven't had any difficulty with doing everything asked of them on the 30 Mbps connection -- Netflix users are very happy and the shrieks from the MMORPG addict mourning death due to lousy Internet connectivity have stopped), but I like the redundancy of having 2, and the 1.5 Mbps service is very inexpensive. > Adding a second entire network for your own private use worked, but it was > probably overkill. Not overkill. Just redundant. But I and my family need our Internet. We cannot live without it. Redundancy is good when it isn't expensive. > If you are feeling adventurous, you might want to try > setting up a CeroWRT network with properly tuned buffers and see if it > changes things for you. I can't promise that it does-I'm just a happy user > of > CeroWRT, not an expert on bufferbloat. But the network behavior you are > describing sounds a lot like what I was trying to cure when I installed > CeroWRT. Hmm. I'm busy with other adventures right now, and not feeling the need. I'll keep it in mind, though. > What does this have to do with the homenet discussion? We should be > proposing a solution that doesn't perpetuate the architecture that leads to > bufferbloat. /64s are very real, and the need to accommodate them appears to be relatively near-term. Multi-homing is real. Improved multi-homing experience is desirable, but not an immediate need. A diagnosis of bufferbloat sounds difficult to cure (requiring adventures and acronyms), so I think I'll stick with my state of denial regarding that. Barbara _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
