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    Traffic Shaper Dropping Packets even with queue at 1200

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      Visentinel
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      Hi Guys,

      i have setup the traffic shaper with HFSC
      my link speed is 20Mbit down 1Mbit up

      I only shape the upload so my server cant saturate the tiny upload bandwidth or so no one else in the house uploading a youtube video kills the pings.

      The problem after spending a couple of days messing with the settings is even increasing the queue length i cant stop it from dropping packets sometimes, it doesn't drop packets unless the link is over all saturated at 1Mbit up but you would think it could queue them properly ?

      the other moment when it will drop a huge amount of packets is if one of the queues is close to upperlimit % and then on the same queue i use chrome to load up a couple of big websites, sometimes one of the sites loads up all mangled and missing allot of formatting.

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        dreamslacker
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        That's normal and expected behaviour.  The traffic shaping in the HFSC drops packets in order to try to maintain the limit.
        It doesn't allow for the buffer to bloat infinitely - which is what I suspect you have expected.

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          Visentinel
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          Is this due to packet ttl ?

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