On Thursday 28 February 2002 18:52, you wrote: > As far as I can see, no backlog is being built. How can I tell? > > FYI, I lowered 768Kbit to 750Kbit and there is no difference. But anywa= y, > doesn't doing that mean that my dsl line will run at less than its best > possible speed? Yes. But you have to do this. The reason is simple. The devices that's the bottleneck on the link will= be=20 shaping the traffic. YOU want to shape the traffic, so you have to be su= re=20 your modem is never filled up with traffic so his buffers are not disturb= ing=20 you setup. The only thing you can do is make sure you are not sending to= o=20 nuch traffic. So yes, you loose some bandwidth, but you win the possibility to shape th= e=20 remaining bandwidth. Stef --=20 stef.coene@docum.org More QOS info : http://www.docum.org/ Title : "Using Linux as bandwidth manager"
