Rubens,
Thanks! Yes, I prioritized small ack, syn and fin packets. I think I'm
seeing an improvement.
Our modem already does caching and I can't control it. It even caches
DNS which breaks things like OpenDNS. Happily they fixed the http/s caching so
we're not still seeing week old DrudgeReport pages.
Greg
On Apr 11, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Rubens Kuhl wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Greg Ihnen <os10ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rubens,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply!
>>
>> I'm using a 5GHz AirMax back haul (PtMP) to two 2.4GHz APs (All UBNT
>> gear). The 5GHz back haul has never broken a sweat. Our "upstream" is a
>> 1M/256K high latency connection so there just isn't that much data to move.
>
> Satellite, huh ? You will probably gain a lot by forcing users to a
> transparent proxy. You can do lots of TCP tuning on a server that
> would be either impossible on some Microsoft TCP/IP stacks or too
> expensive in support hours to do on the end users machines. Caching
> also comes to mind.
>
>> You got me thinking about the ack packets. Besides possibly a queue
>> type, what do you think about prioritizing them high?
>
> High priority for ACK packets usually turns into better performance
> perception on any network. I would try it for sure, but consider the
> proxy option above for your specific scenario (not the usual WISP
> one).
>
>
> Rubens
>
>
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