Tag: VDSL2
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Improving my home Internet performance
For a long time I’ve experimented with shaping my upstream traffic via Linux’s traffic management functionality (tc command) with the goal of improving my Internet connection’s performance. The latest incarnation of this configuration can be found in this script. Anecdotally this configuration greatly improves interactive performance. Use cases such as Skype calls work without a…
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Per packet overhead on VDSL2 – part 3
Previous instalments: Per packet overhead on VDSL Per packet overhead on VDSL2 – part 2 Related Bufferbloat list thread For tonight’s edition I have increased the number of small packet sizes in the experiment and dropped the larger sizes. For each of the following data sizes (iperf -l) there are five seconds of traffic: 0,…
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Per packet overhead on VDSL2 – part 2
A few days ago I wrote about some interesting latency results I observed on my home Internet connection with small packets. This post adds a bit more data. In this experiment I disabled all upstream traffic shaping and then used iperf to blast UDP packets of various sizes to a destination host I control. The…
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Per packet overhead on VDSL2
My home router (Linux box) is configured to shape upstream traffic to just below the link rate to avoid Bufferbloat – this greatly improves interactive performance under load. Recently I’ve experimented with various packet sizes. The charts below show the effect of small packets. Between 0-6 seconds the link is idle. From 6-14 seconds the…