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>1. Introduction</H1
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>The purpose of this document is to suggest a way to manage outbound
traffic on an ADSL (or cable modem) connection to the Internet. The problem
is that many ADSL lines are limited in the neighborhood of 128kbps for upstream
data transfer. Aggravating this problem is the packet queue in the ADSL modem
which can take 2 to 3 seconds to empty when full. Together this means that when
the upstream bandwidth is fully saturated it can take up to 3 seconds for
any other packets to get out to the Internet. This can cripple interactive
applications such as telnet and multi-player games.</P
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>Neither the author nor the distributors, or any other contributor of
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other type of damage incurred by following the suggestions in this text.</P
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>This document is copyright 2002 by Dan Singletary, and is
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