Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: New OpenBSD speeds downloads, games significantly. Especially BitTorrent.

[quote name="Senor Barborito"]As seen <a href="http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html">here</a>. The problem? The way TCP ACKs are prioritized by asynchronous DSL lines, and from the sound of those of you complaining about BitTorrent - many cable lines as well. The following is a traffic graph without OpenBSD: <img src="http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri-norm.jpg"> The following is a traffic graph after OpenBSD's packetfilter has been used to reprioritize TCP ACK (acknowledge) packets: <img src="http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri-priq.jpg"> This should also be applicable to reprioritizing, say all UDP packets (games), far in excess of other packets such that one can download or *ahem* serve content without their gameplay being affected. If anyone wants a basic 'how to setup' for OpenBSD and an old computer (Pentium 200, etc.) I would be more than happy to help set this up - if multiple people want it I don't mind writing a simple how-to. I still need to spend some time figuring out this altqueue shit, but what Hartmeier (the principle programmer for PacketFilter) has written here should be more than enough to get started. --SB[/quote]