Routers, switches, and cable modems have buffers to temporarily store packets that can't be transmitted right away. As the buffers get bigger, however, latency gets worse. Ars explores the problem, ...

While lots of people are worried, rightly, about running out of IPv4 addresses, Netizens have other problems to worry about. Like, for example, Bufferbloat — a key contributor to congestion/latency ...

When I had to troubleshoot my network for buffering issues, the problem turned out to be IPv6, and disabling it fixed the buffering for good. But that's not the only thing that can cause stuttering in ...