Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

  • onion@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Wouldn’t two Steam users downloading a game be enough to notice?

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        11 months ago

        Steam can do pretty well filling a tail circuit, probably better on average. But a torrent of a large file with a ton of peers when your client has the port forward back into the client absolutely puts more pressure on a tail circuit. More flows makes the shaping work harder.

        Sometimes we see an outlier in our reporting and it’s not obvious if a customer has a torrent or a DDoS directed at them for the first few minutes.

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      11 months ago

      Depends. If steam is pulling a full 300mbps on both connections there would still be 40% of the bandwidth available.

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      11 months ago

      No, if two 300 megabit tails are shaped correctly, a third user shouldn’t notice that the 1G backhaul has got a bunch of use going on.

      If you do, there’s something wrong or you aren’t really getting the 1G for some reason. Not generally a concern in a carrier platform.