On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:32:51 +1000
Zone AdrenaLan Melbourne <melbourne at zoneadrenalan dot com dot au> wrote:

> Does setting up these rules have any actual effect on the performance of 
> the connection?

	In testing our new T1, I found that with a download pipe set to 1544 kb/s
during a file download the traffic graph (external to m0n0wall) was very
uneven - up and down.  Setting the pipe to ~1470 allowed a higher overall
download speed and the traffic graph was almost flat.  I'm not sure why, but
that's how it was.  Guess that's why "they" say to use only 95% of the total
bandwidth.

	Also, pick a download server that's not maxed...Microsoft's was
decently fast but uneven.  Adobe's Acrobat Reader patches are big enough to
test with and their connection seemed much better.

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