On 1/15/08, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i doubt it's your machine not being happy with number of connections - > i routinely have hundreds of states. depends on your modem, maybe? or > who made the board inside your modems? or what crack-addled rhesus > monkey pretended to write the firmware. If several different > manufacturers licensed the IP stack or NAT engine from the same > vendor, then it's perfectly possible that you both have ill-designed > hardware.
add me to the crowd. I got curious and tested a bit around and am able up my ping latency up to 9 s (then I got bored :-). I *think* (at least here) incoming connections are more of an issue than outgoing ones, and traffic shaping (as in bandwith limiting) doesn't help much. Not traffic shaping doesn't help either. This is on a 3M/512k ADSL (Arcor/Germany) with a soekris and pppoe. I have not yet looked if its just a pps issue with my soekris (in that case there should be no latency problem at about 1/20th the available bandwith.) I could imagine that some equipment not up to the task at the provider could keep tabs on my states, but I don't see any reason why. (Yes I know, there's this new evil data retention law, but the providers don't even know what exactly they have to log and they are not exactly keen on implementing it). --knitti
