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Originally Posted by horseman
From what I've experienced then TBB is skewed more towards showing upstream utilisation and mine doesn't indicate downstream utilisation to anything like the same extent.
(Since I have Samknows then I have a relatively accurate and consistent benchmark to compare against)
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Two issues at play here.
1) DOCSIS upstream is TDMA which is more prone to latency caused by utilisation - there are 2 contention points at play, contending to send your request for a grant and then waiting for the grant time to actually transmit the data.
2) DOCSIS allows large traffic bursts to request more bandwidth as part of a data burst so favours continuous large amounts of upstream traffic over small bursts such as a response to a TBB ping.
Downstream uses a scheduler at the CMTS. The pipe has to max out, with interest, in order to increase latency substantially.