Re: [GTALUG] Wireless router -- which one?

On 08/22/2016 04:07 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

Am I right that if the bottleneck is beyond his demark, and it the flow is predominantly inbound, code on his own router cannot affect the problem? Well, perverse code could: for example send ACKs for packets not yet seen.

I suppose, but where would the bottleneck be? His connection to the ISP is likely the slowest link, with his local LAN faster. Perhaps he should fire up Wireshark and take a look. Also, is it in fact "buffer bloat"? Or just a poorly performing router? Given replacing it cleared the problem, that's what I'd suspect. With Wireshark, he can look at all the traffic, examine the TCP details, watch for ACKs. etc.