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You are correct with your answer. DSL is a shared technology with no garantied bandwidth. It works just like a modem. You connect to an ISP, this ISP brings your traffic back (called backhaul) to its main site and then gets transferred to the Internet. The Backhaul portion is (most of the time) ATM UBR traffic. UBR means unspecified bit rate. This kind of traffic is a lot cheapper for ISP. Hope this helps Hugo -----Message d'origine----- De : Mitch (WebCob) [mailto:mitch at webcob dot com] Envoyé : Monday, July 26, 2004 1:20 AM À : Danne; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Objet : RE: [m0n0wall] Traffic Shaping issue > My DSL ISP is SBC. They are quite lenient with their network. I have > asked several techs (both transport and ISP side) about filtering > being done, and there is nothing to hinder this specific traffic. I > usually test my connection at http://web100.rit.edu:7123/ . I always > get consistant >320kbps upload results from there. I've also never > noticed any problem uploading anything using my prior firewall, IPCop. > Then again, the main reason I started using m0n0wall was for the > traffic shaping ability. I never even considered this to be a problem > until I noticed my serving speed increase after disabling traffic > shaping. Hmm.... Maybe I'm not being clear in what I'm thinking... and maybe I'm wrong... But it seems to me that just because you limit your throughput to X that you will ever see a transfer of X. It will always be X - network overhead. In a controlled environment, this will be VERY close to X, but in the real world, where your acks get delayed by the total trip time to the destination host, the throughput will be slower. Am I wrong? Traffic shaping is about ensuring the MAXIMUM limits are never violated in order to ensure that there is bandwidth available for critial data... but it doesn't ensure 100% channel saturation. I think. Anyone? m/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |