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Cox to test new way to handle Internet congestion

• noonespecial 18y ago
  Dear Cox: man tc You probably should have done this in 1999.
  • wmf 18y ago
    tc doesn't run on real routers and there are many possible ways to configure it, most of which violate someone's idea of network neutrality. The problem is political, not technical.
    • noonespecial 18y ago
      Having been a cox customer with an inquisitive mind and tcpdump, I can say that they would certainly benefit from a fairness queue, even if they don't sort it by traffic type or destination. A single client should not be able to take and hold 90% of a segment no matter what protocol they are running. Even if these were just tiny routers, one per segment, this would be a drastic improvement. My gigabit MPLS peering routers will be very disappointed to learn that they are not real.