> How do cable modems limit ? That's a design decision. One network might choose the DOCSIS way and program the cable-modems to do the limiting, other network might prefer keeping the cable modem at highest speed possible and limit the speed in a B-RAS, a broadband aggregation router (usually a big/expensive hardware from Cisco, Juniper or RedBack). > Here in tne uk you downloads always seam to start at wirespeed and then > drop to the speed your paying All shaping mechanisms will perform like this at some time scale. If it's on sub-second window you probably won't notice. > Can anyone who is on a burstable connection provide any example of how > they allow busting for short periods The trick here will be tuning your burst time/rate/bytes to match the service provider in order to get the most of your connection. But that would usually apply to ingress shaping; for a cable/xDSL connection, I prefer limiting only on egress. Rubens _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
