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wazoox on June 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: 3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust

I have an under 2 ms ping to my AP, but WiFi has terrible buffer bloat, so ping latency doesn't mean much actually.

Dylan16807 on June 17, 2020 [–]

Any idea what the state of the art is for reducing buffer bloat on access points?

And you can mitigate that by not using tons of bandwidth in the background while gaming.

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