[ NNSquad ] Re: BT [UK] calls for action on net speeds

[John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com>]

A related issue is the simplistic design of most home 
router/firewall/access point boxes.    Having a router than can do even 
simple traffic shaping (I use m0n0wall) can make a big different by 
prioritizing short upstream packets over long ones - without this web 
surfing while my wife is watching TV via Slingbox from Australia where 
she's visiting is horrible, with shaping it's no problem.

John

Andrew Burnette wrote:
> Similarly, your chosen settings (tuned or not) and the default 
> algorithms in control of your TCP stack significantly effect overall 
> performance and throughput. (note the default TCP algorithm in linux 
> 2.6 kernel alone has been changed three times that I recall).
>
> Try any of the speedtest sites out there from different computers (OS 
> type, or IP stack tuning) and you'll see statistically significant 
> performance differences between them on identical test criteria.