[H-GEN] Improving UDP performance on firewall?

[Sandra Mansell]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:03:24PM +1000, David Harrison wrote:
> Yeh, I'm using MRTG to graph throughput and Smokeping to track 
> latency/packetloss - basically at the same time every night everything 
> starts going to hell and the numbers are matching up where I would 
> expect (ie, it hits a certain traffic volume and then this affects 
> pings/loss).

Out of curiosity, is this an ADSL connection? I find that on our home
connection (512/128) that when the upstream traffic hits about 75% of
our theoretical upstream capabilities, the upstream is saturated and
the pings are ridiculously high. We had to implement a throttling system
to keep our internet connection usable.

One assumes that since games use upstream in larger quantities than
'regular' internet use (HTTP, FTP, etc) that this could be happening to
you as well.

Sandra.
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