[Rack] [Noisebridge-discuss] internet is really slow in the space

[Jake]

hey man just because you can't do it doesn't mean it can't be done.

On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, John Adams wrote:

> It's downright impossible to implement traffic shaping when the traffic is asymmetrically loaded and you do not
> control the other end of the link. You can reserve uplink bandwidth but look at how the problem plays out with HTTP
> requests.
> You make a tiny, 30 byte request that results in a flood of return traffic. If you attempt to shape traffic in the
> customer-side router, you can't shape it because you've already saturated the inbound pipe. 
> 
> We experience this problem all the time at DNA lounge. Some joker saturates the inbound pipe and our best defense
> becomes 'ban his mac address from dhcp'. I've seen many recipes for PF that claim to do this but it's generally
> hopeless.
> 
> -j
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Nicholas LoCicero <nick.locicero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>       I was there as well, but didn't notice any slow internet. Do you think it could be the ISP?
>
>       On Sep 23, 2013 6:45 AM, "Romy Snowyla" <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>             I was at Noisebridge Saturday evening and verify yes it was very slow
>
>             Sent from my iPhone
>
>             > On Sep 22, 2013, at 6:18 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>             >
>             > how do you find out what is using up all the bandwidth, and block it?
>             >
>             > the internet is unusably slow.  If noisebridge doesn't have tools, materials or even
>             internet connectivity, what are we doing?
>             >
>             > assuming nobody wants to tell me how to poke into the innards of our traffic routing, maybe
>             someone can implement traffic shaping so that no one can use so much bandwidth that everyone
>             else is shut out?
>             >
>             > -jake
>             >
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