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SMC_QoS
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SMC_QoS to sef5

Anon

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Re: [Business] Comcast Business class -- uploading kills connect

Actually "QoS" stands for Quality of Service, and it does not refer to any specific protocol, and it is not even necessarily bandwidth related; there are many different ways to implement QoS, depending on what symptoms you are trying to mitigate. In your case the problem sounds as if it is directly caused by the asymmetric (not asynchronous) nature of an HFC connection, and proper QoS (which again, has never been an SMC gateway feature) should relieve the symptom (if you can ditch the SMC gateway and use a standard cable modem and a good router/firewall).

If you must use the SMC gateway because you are a static IP customer, and you are already bypassing the NAT router and firewall in the SMC gateway, then you may be screwed. However, if you are not also currently using a good router with adequate QoS capability behind the SMC gateway...and before your LAN devices... you may still be able to mitigate the symptom you are seeing by doing so.
sef5
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sef5

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said by SMC_QoS :

In your case the problem sounds as if it is directly caused by the asymmetric (not asynchronous) nature of an HFC connection

Note that I said it's behaving AS IF it is synchronous instead of asynchronous.

The asymmetric nature is irrelevant; you can have this particular class of problem with a fully symmetric connection. If it's a synchronous communication, however, then data can only be transmitted in one direction at a time. And that's how it's behaving.

I know IP and above rather well.

SMC_QoS
@comcast.net

SMC_QoS

Anon

said by sef5:

said by SMC_QoS :

In your case the problem sounds as if it is directly caused by the asymmetric (not asynchronous) nature of an HFC connection

Note that I said it's behaving AS IF it is synchronous instead of asynchronous.

The asymmetric nature is irrelevant; you can have this particular class of problem with a fully symmetric connection. If it's a synchronous communication, however, then data can only be transmitted in one direction at a time. And that's how it's behaving.

I know IP and above rather well.

In that case, possibly what you really meant to say was half vs full duplex, not asynchronous vs synchronous (and neither of those terms are directly related to IP networking).

And FWIW, the symptom you describe is a classic asymmetric upstream capacity problem, and is a more likely explanation than either a half/full duplex or asynchronous/synchronous misconfiguration in the SMC gateway firmware (although it might not hurt to check the SMC gateway's switch port interface status/settings).

And good luck resolving your problem.

same_ole
@comcast.net

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same_ole

Anon

said by SMC_QoS :

And FWIW, the symptom you describe is a classic asymmetric upstream capacity problem, and is a more likely explanation than either a half/full duplex or asynchronous/synchronous misconfiguration in the SMC gateway firmware (although it might not hurt to check the SMC gateway's switch port interface status/settings).

I think he explained things as clearly as possible with this:

No, this is a new problem. It did not happen before 2 weeks ago.

So, to reiterate: old firmware, this did not happen; new firmware, this does happen.

So how is this not a firmware issue? You completely missed one of the main points.
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mb6
join:2000-07-23
Washington, NJ

mb6 to same_ole

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Re: [Business] Comcast Business class -- uploading kills connect

The timing relationship to the firmware update could be anecdotal and the issue could be related to something else. There was a lengthy thread here a while back about how saturating your uplink negatively affects your downlink.

SMC_QoS
@comcast.net

SMC_QoS to same_ole

Anon

to same_ole
said by same_ole :

said by SMC_QoS :

And FWIW, the symptom you describe is a classic asymmetric upstream capacity problem, and is a more likely explanation than either a half/full duplex or asynchronous/synchronous misconfiguration in the SMC gateway firmware (although it might not hurt to check the SMC gateway's switch port interface status/settings).

I think he explained things as clearly as possible with this:

No, this is a new problem. It did not happen before 2 weeks ago.

So, to reiterate: old firmware, this did not happen; new firmware, this does happen.

So how is this not a firmware issue? You completely missed one of the main points.

You will not find anywhere in any post I made in this thread any suggestion that the problem was not a firmware issue. The point it that the firmware issue is a lack of QoS support, and that problem has always been present in the SMC gateway (that the OP has only noticed it since the most recent firmware update is simply coincidental/irrelevant).

But speaking of missing the point, apparently you missed the simple point that by externally applying rate limiting QoS, the OP was able to eliminate the upstream saturation problem:
said by sef5:

It turns out that the managed switch I got has a bandwidth option. Limiting outbound bandwidth to about 7mbits/sec works around the issue.