[CUWiN-Dev] Question on CUWin uplink traffic shaping

[Martin Sauter]

Hello,

my name is Martin Sauter and I am a book author on wireless topics and 
also an active blogger. I've recently posted an article 
(http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2006/07/no_wireless_kil.html 
) on what's missing in the mobile landscape to make the wireless 
Internet as successful as the fixed line Internet we know today. 
Somebody pointed out your project to me as a response to the article. 
She was quite right, the recent NSF grant to you seems to be exactly 
what I thought was missing in the conclusion of my article.

Your project sounds quite fascinating to me and I took some time to 
browse through your web pages. I have one technical question which you 
might be able to answer based on your experience with meshed networks / 
multiuser / single Internet access networks: Have you experienced 
service degradation in the downlink direction (as seen on the 
interconnection to the network) for some users of the system because of 
other users heavily using the uplink (e.g. for VoIP or for uploading 
pictures, large files, etc?) and thus slowing down TCP ACKs? If so, did 
you address this problem in your software?

Thanks and best regards,
Martin