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R7000 and bandwidth control
I am using my R7000 behind a DSL modem as LAN and WiFi router and since a couple of weeks I am recognising an odd behaviour - when one of the other clients connected to the R7000 is starting a downlo...
- On an asymmetrical link, where the upload rate is a fraction of the download rate it’s possible to choke the network with upload data. So for example with a large TCP download where packets are acknowledged by the receiving computer then there can be a corresponding high upload of data, and if the upload rate limit is significantly lower that the download rate limit then the Internet connection can grind to a halt. The first few paragraphs of this .pdf might explain better than I can; http://www.sigcomm.org/sites/default/files/ccr/papers/2012/January/2096149-2096158.pdf
On an asymmetrical link, where the upload rate is a fraction of the download rate it’s possible to choke the network with upload data. So for example with a large TCP download where packets are acknowledged by the receiving computer then there can be a corresponding high upload of data, and if the upload rate limit is significantly lower that the download rate limit then the Internet connection can grind to a halt.
The first few paragraphs of this .pdf might explain better than I can;
http://www.sigcomm.org/sites/default/files/ccr/papers/2012/January/2096149-2096158.pdf
Thanks - that might perfectly explain the problem - I have download 16MBit, upload 1.5 MBit - I'll check out the documentation you provided as well. It sounds by throtteling the general bandwidth to 100MBit in the local LAN I can somewhat mitigate the problem for now until I are able to upgrade to more outbound bandwidth.