Colin Kern escreveu: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Joel Foner<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> That said, an awful lot of people crank the bandwidth up to 1.5mbps >>> because they figure they have a 1.5mbit connection or better. That's >>> often a mistake. Most ISPs overstate the capacity their networks by a >>> good margin, and it's very unlikely that even a 3 mbit DSL connection >>> provides highly reliable 1.5mbit downstream. >>> >> But for most on cable or fiber it's only a part of what's available :) Is >> there a reason it's capped at 1.5Mbps? >> For what it's worth, an easy place to check your actual bandwidth is here >> http://www.speedtest.net/. >> Joel >> > > I noticed in Snowglobe the cap is much higher (6 mbps, IIRC). > > I have heard some people saying that lowering your bandwidth helps > with "rubber-banding", which I think makes more sense. If your > bandwidth is too high, it might overload your own internet connection, > causing latency problems. > > Colin > With me, somthing I've noticed, usually when I have any noticeable packetloss, if I move the bandwidth throttle all the way down for a few (or several) seconds, the packetloss goes away, once it is gone I can move the throttle back up and packetloss doesn't seem to return (either until another login, or at least for a long time), there a few rare times where doing this doesn't have any effect on the PL though, I imagine that it has a different cause in these cases (I haven't tried Snowlobe yet)
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