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There's a whole wiki for it: https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction/ https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/bloat/wiki/Introduction... To quote: Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from a router or other network equipment buffering too much data. It is a huge drag on Internet performance created, ironically, by previous attempts to make it work better. The one-sentence summary is “Bloated buffers lead to network-crippling latency spikes.”