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I read through the first few pages thinking, "Get to the point: how did you detect the upload/download speed?" Finally, > The only catch is... what upload/dow
by p1mrx 8y ago
I read through the first few pages thinking, "Get to the point: how did you detect the upload/download speed?" Finally,
> The only catch is... what upload/download speeds should we give to cake? Okay, I cheated for that one. I just asked my dad what speed his DSL link goes in real life, and plugged those in.
So the critical problem remains unsolved. If the ISP ever increases their speed cap, it goes to waste; if they decrease the speed cap, the fix stops working. I use a similar solution, but I have to turn it off and retest a few times a year, because Comcast sometimes changes the speed without notifying me.
- rkeene2 8y agoOne way to solve it is to look for TCP resends, over a diverse set of connections, and decrease the apparent line speed if there are "too many". The bloglog entry I posted earlier [0] goes over this. [0] https://rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/176 https://rkeene.org/projects/info/wiki/176