How does Talk Internet Sharedband deal with different latencies on lines; i.e. deals with out of sequence packets?
Each Internet device has a small amount of memory to deal with out of sequence packets – the amount depends upon the operating system. On two slow speed lines with large latency differences, this memory buffer is probably sufficiently large to cope with out of sequence packets. However if fast lines are used, or there is a very large difference in latency, it is likely that this buffer will not be sufficiently large resulting in packet loss and poor performance. Sharedband has built-in packet resequencing software that puts downstream traffic back in its original order. However because the routers are doing more work, the over-all maximum throughput is reduced.
