> Thinking about it further; its probably best to prioritise packets by
> size (give small packets higher priority).
>
> That way small but important packets like DNS queries and TCP
> handshaking would not be obstructed by large upstream traffic like SMTP.
>

But is it not tragic that these sorts of approaches are needed in the
first place?

Whats an acceptable up:down bandwidth ratio?

4:1?

8:1?

I assume that the historical reasons not to give people Synchronous
up/down rates are something like 'discouraging people from running
servers' but surely 128k/2meg is slightly on the extreme?

... and are the people with the ability to do anything about the problem
actually reading this? Probably not. But to expect end users to
institute QoS and the like is rediculous - I dont see them documenting
THIS on their help-pages...

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