Got a nice boost from Comcast
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 5:12 pm
It's hillbilly country out here, and I never used to get much over 9 Mbit/sec, not counting Comcast's silly burst speed (which, thankfully, they seem to have discontinued around here now that they've given us real Internet.
Confirmed this was real-world numbers by performing an FTP saturation test in both directions (had 3 different computers all download from different FTP sites, and then upload to different FTP sites to max out the bandwidth, and then tracked it in my router's bandwidth log. Numbers closely agree (this was a sustained test over 15 minutes to make sure there was no burst speed nonsense happening):
Discovered this when I performed the FTP saturation tests to get the max bandwidth numbers to use for configuring the QoS (Quality of Service) settings on my new Asus RT-N16 router running EasyTomato firmware.
Re-learned a LOT about QoS this past week, and also had to learn EasyTomato's way of setting up QoS classes - it's very different from how standard Tomato or DD-WRT does it, but once you understand it, it's actually quite logical. When I first slapped in the router, even with QoS enabled, I couldn't game and use Teamspeak while also downloading torrents or running DC client.
I've got things very close to perfectly tweaked now. I just wish there was an easy way to prioritize Netflix streaming packets, but since it's done through port 80 (HTTP) there's no easy way of designating it, other than including it in the WWW rules set. Then again, I have enough bandwidth allocated to browsing that even if the wife is watching Netflix while I'm doing something crazy in my office, it shouldn't matter. Might do a test and have her watch something while I try to saturate the connection.
Anyway, it's nice to finally see that the DOCSIS 3 modem I bought early this year is finally getting to stretch it's legs.
