[p2p-hackers] Hard question....

[Lars-Åke Larzon]

> Um... most connections aren't saturated 24x7.  Like, I have a 6Mbps
> connection and sometimes I'm just using AIM.  In this situation,  
> I'd like to
> measure that 5.9Mbps is free.  Any clever ideas on how to  
> accomplish this?
>

Well, if you are absolutely sure that your own connection always is  
the path bottleneck, you could simply keep track of your observed  
peak capacities, calculate an estimated capacity X and assume that X- 
your current load should be available. Keeping that estimate X on the  
lower end would give you a good enough approximation. This can be a  
good strategy for low-bandwidth access networks that then won't have  
to ramp up as slowly as TCP slowstart dictates.

But then, if you have a 6Mbps connection to the Internet, how often  
is that the actual bottleneck?

/Lars-Åke

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