On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Neil Harris <n...@tonal.clara.co.uk>wrote:
> On 22/06/13 16:34, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> That's easily solved by padding the ACK to 1500 bytes as well. >>>> >>>> Matt >>>> >>>> Or indeed by the media player sending large amounts of traffic back to >>> the CDN via auxiliary HTTP POST requests? >>> >>> Neil >>> >>> That would assume that the client has symmetrical upstream bandwidth >> over which to send such datagrams. At least in the US, that is the >> exception, not the rule. >> >> Owen >> >> > Hi Owen, > > You only need to match the video stream bandwidth, not the full download > speed of the link. > Nah. For peering purposes, you only need to match half the video stream bandwidth to be within compliance. Generating 2.5M back upstream in response to a 5M video stream would be more than sufficient to keep the ratio-watchers happy. Matt