I got to wondering… Bufferbloat. I’m wondering if setting a limit on both the inbound and outbound side of things will make a practical difference?
If the WAN is slower than the LAN connection, typically, your ISP is going to limit the ingress of data to somewhere around what you’ve contracted them to provide. If they’re unaware of anything you’re doing in your own router, you don’t really want your router to become an artificial limit to the flow of incoming data do you?
On the other hand, as far as sending data, you definitely don’t want to push more than what you’ve contracted to have available, as the carrier/ISP is not likely to pass unlimited amount of traffic. So, if you impose a limit on the outgoing data rate, so that you don’t over-fill / give reason for anything on the ISP side to drop packets, and you leave the incoming limit unset, is’nt that the best way to go?
You limit your outgoing traffic to stay within the limits.
The ISP isn’t going to want to send you more than they want to, but, you’re not in control of that anyway, you just want to provide as clear a path for the data they send to arrive on your LAN.
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Part of why I raise this is that if I don’t set an ingress limit, but do set an egress limit, I’m seeing full rate incoming data and near maximum outgoing data.
Using the above setup, I’m seeing full-rate download speeds with & without acceleration, and the upload speeds are being kept close to the max rate I’ve configured, just shy of 2Gbit/s.
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And, this is with 1.4e firmware.
Did the 1.4e firmware do anything that might fix my SFP+ XGS-PON stick being able to be used via an unmanaged switch as a media converter to wired ethernet?
I wonder if the lan tagging issue was impacting me?