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2013-08-13 »

Excellent article about how QoS is a failure on the open Internet.

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-06/noqos.html

tl;dr Google Fiber + QoS is kind of a silly idea.  Relatedly, keeping queue lengths short makes a huge difference; prioritizing packets doesn't particularly.

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