larek
join:2004-03-25
Hancock, MI
2 edits | reply to larek
Re: [DSL] Modem Poisoning
Common Solutions I Hear
Limit your max connections:
Its true if I limit my Max Connections down to 24, a single modem doesn't get seem to get poisoned. However that is program specific, and there are 6 college students living in my house. So each would thus have to limit their total max connections to 4 (for all their computers and programs). It would not be 24x4modems/6users since with the load balancer you cannot guaranty that the active connections would be spread evenly. Remember poisoning one modem brings down the whole house when using the load balancer. No one wants to limit themselves to 4 connections max. I don't really want to limit my max connections at all.
Change your Loadbancer Config:
True if I change the balancer to say Round Robbin, it does keep some Internet alive. But its really poor QOS. Even web surfing with 1/4 of the traffic just lost (require active retrying by the user) is very annoying.
Is your cabling bad?
No, I had good a dedicated cat5 wiring infrastructure. But due to (suggestions) it has been replaced with dedicated Shielded Cat6, Each modem has its own discrete shielded cable, direct to the Tel-co (ATT) box on the exterior of the House.
Don't load balance:
Use one modem per person.. That's what were currently doing, but is less than optimal and 4 modem's don't enveny split 6 ways. And were already paying $200/month so adding more modems+lines isn't viable.
AND when the load balancer works the speed 12mbish is amazing so we really so want to use it. |
