@Vexira what chris.at was saying is true. Some ISP providers overprovision bandwidth. No need to get hostile. He understands how it works.
Case in point:
If I currently buy 25mbps from Comcast they will provision it at 30mbps. (They usually overprovision 20%)
This would then allow a user to input 28mbps for qos or 112% on the slider if inputting paid for bandwidth.
I am simply against the slider.
If users do not want to read the instructions then I can’t do anything about that. ( this was also made for users who want to tweak qos to their liking. I feel like these users can read a paragraph or two. It is so easy to setup it’s laughable )
I am also against running a Speedtest and automatically setting bandwidth as I feel a manual initial configuration is more optimal.
I realise a slider is pointless but chris.at didn't read, I agree a slider is out of the question but I was curious about how Merlin did implement a drop box of overhead values for overhead, I don't see how something similar is a major issue if it's reserved bandwidth percentages set in increments 80,85,90,95 with a toggle option, also you do forget that alot of users are not native English speakers, and I've had to manually set it up for some them via team viewer I'm talking about the old versions.
I'm not getting hostile at all merely disappointed that people can't read or bothering to actually read something after I adjusted a post besides he's acting like he's going off on his own tanget if I'm hostile the he's a troll and you of all people in the first post should know better, if he's so correct then why put in the first post to use the bandwidth calculation if we should just use per packet overhead instead.
Besides obviously not every ISP over provisions, the suggestion I was trying to make was a GUI variant of that old rule you gave me a long time ago for calculating the bandwidth form a
value manually entered into the gui.
Here in Australia they over subscribe, and under provision, I have yet to see an ISP that over provisions here in Australia whilst it might be the case for people in other countries it's not here.
Yet I've never see one a suggestion to use full bandwidth even by yourself or any of the documents on QoS configuration or direct values form the ISP because it's not 100% accurate.
If I'm hostile then you obviously are bias and it's actually kind of amuisng consideing that in our earliest conversations around you were less than pleasant you disliked me asking questions. I've observed insistence jump in without reading then instantly take sides with some one or say that they are correct without context just to be opposed to me or paint me as some how not understanding of how it works, I get it you just don't like me for some reason.
This is about the second or third time you just read what someone else said, and just call them correct without full context, considering that you are going on about an automatic speed test, and a slider, when i stated that I understand a slider would be pointless but a drop down box with
fixed bandwidth % values starting with 80% and finishing at 95% as a togglable option, labels as reserved bandwidth same as the front page of the thread, I don't see as to how that would hurt considering that it is less confusing than the per packet overhead.
Because logic dictates that if you ISP does over provision you would take the values form the multiple speed tests and if I remember correctly either average them out or use the lowest values, I can't remember exactly the process and use those or use what values speed test.net or whatever speed test site spits out.
Also with the slider if you did research in to how net duma or Netgear does it in Thier anti buffer bloat it's a fixed range.