Bufferbloat in 802.11 and 3G Networks  Any network system with
buffering shared among many users is much like a congested
highway.  We’ll call them “big fat networks”. Two such network
technologies which show this problem are 802.11 (abgn), and 3g
wireless.  In one, the buffers are distributed among the clients
(and may also be in the access points and routers); in the
other, both possibly in the clients, and the radio controllers
they talk to, but also possibly in the backhaul networks.  You
have suffered unusable networks at conferences.  Wonder why no
more. You can make your life less painful by mitigating your
operating system’s and access point’s buffering.  Moral of the
Story  Whether you call what we see on 802.11 and 3g networks
“congestion collapse” as the 1980′s NSFnet event was called
(with high packet loss rates), or something different such as
bufferbloat (exhibiting much lower, but still significant packet
losses), the effect is the same: horrifyingly bad latency and
the resulting application fa