Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:45:18 -0500
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>,
        Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
        Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: txqueuelen has wrong units; should be time
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:37:45AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:

> Keeping the timeout really low is important because it isn't
> OK to eat up all the latency tolerance in one hop. You have
> an end-to-end budget of 20 ms for usable GUI rubber banding.
> The budget for gaming is about 80 and for VoIP is about 150.

Oooh, numbers! :-)

Where can I find estimates on average hop counts for internet
connections?

John
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