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Very interesting and sheds some light on the weird latency issues I see here in Rwanda, where 3G issues aren't limited to being on moving trains. Sometimes pinging shows crazy return times of 30000-60000ms. Other times they're only 200-400ms but every other ping packet times out, i.e. one packet through, next one drops, and so on. Still trying to figure out exactly what's happening then.


Bufferbloat means when you refuse to drop packets, you get longer latencies: http://www.bufferbloat.net/

Why you'd have big buffers sometimes and not others, I have no idea.




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