Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Feature proposal (scheduling related) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 23 Jul 2003 15:23:27 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 15:17, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > Basically, you're stuck. The biggest part of the problem is that although you > can certainly control the outbound packets, you have no real control over when > inbound packets arrive at the other end of your dial-up. One person suggested > using QoS to help things along - but that needs to be implemented at the OTHER > end of the dial-up - which means unless your provider does QoS on the terminal > server, you're basically stuck. Packets will probably just get queued up in > order of arrival.
There are a few things that help in the general real world but not mathematical sense. Use an ftp client like gnome-ftp which can set the rate it accepts data and window sizes. It'll still jam the modem a little when it starts a transfer but then it'll generally be ok if you have a bit of buffering for your icecast stream.
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