cFos Traffic Shaping reduces delays
during data transfer and allows you to surf the Internet up to three
times faster. Finally, you can use the full bandwidth of your DSL
connection!
During TCP/IP transfer, a certain amount of data
needs to be confirmed upon reception before more can be sent. Stalling
data confirmation results in delays and transfer-rate slowdowns, thus
forcing the sender to wait. Especially for ADSL, it is possible to slow
a download to a crawl by choking the upstream channel (which has the
smaller bandwidth anyway) with an upload. This is because in such a
scenario there is not enough upstream bandwidth left for data
confirmation. The standard solution so far has been to try and
compensate for this by increasing TCP window size, thereby allowing
more data to be sent without immediate confirmation.