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Residential internet in Hong Kong can go as high as 10gig.

I don't see anything about links anywhere around 10gig or higher, if I wanted this on my 100gig backbone or 40gig metro links.



Bufferbloat happens on high speed links like those but amount of bloat you see is in the 30ms - 60ms range (vs seconds(!!) on home links). Bloat happens mostly (aside from microbursts) on overloaded links - and high speed backbones are typically overprovisioned so the problem only shows up when there's an outage or fiber cut. Example of what happens today on a fiber cut: http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/bufferbloat_on_the_backbone/

IF things like fq_codel were deployed on those we'd not see latencies climb that much at all, we'd see bandwidths decline to the actual capacity available - and only the biggest flows would be hit to do so.

FQ_codel is lightweight enough to fit directly in high speed hardware and it does indeed run on 40gigE plus devices on linux, ddpk, BSD, in software. But it takes a long time for new chipsets to adopt new algorithms even if they incorporate support for deeply desirable features like ECN.

That said... 10Gbit to the home.... ooohhhhh. it's really hard to bloat that!




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