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You Don't Know Jack about Bandwidth: If you're an ISP and all your customers hate you, take heart. This is now a solvable problem.

Published: 08 July 2024 Publication History
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    Bandwidth probably isn't the problem when your employees or customers say they have terrible Internet performance. Once they have something in the range of 50 to 100 Mbps, the problem is latency, how long it takes for the ISP's routers to process their traffic. If you're an ISP and all your customers hate you, take heart. This is now a solvable problem, thanks to a dedicated band of individuals who hunted it down, killed it, and then proved out their solution in home routers.

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    Queue  Volume 22, Issue 3
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    May/June 2024
    70 pages
    ISSN:1542-7730
    EISSN:1542-7749
    DOI:10.1145/3676308
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    Published: 08 July 2024
    Published in QUEUE Volume 22, Issue 3

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