Priority queues
So after much trial and error I finally have queueing set up on my home network!
Most people on asynchronous DSL connections like mine use queues to prioritize TCP ACK packets. As I’d said before my DSL seems unaffected by that particular issue which is interesting in and of itself because it seems to indicate that 1) my DSL is a fatter pipe than they advertise and 2) the bandwidth limiting is happening farther upstream and TCP ACK packets are being prioritized there.
Well that’s all well and good, but I recently discovered that during a large upload (*cough*bittorrent*cough*) my SSH sessions became laggy and generally a pain to use… and we can’t have any of that.