Bufferbloat and TCP Performance

I ran into two articles by Jim Gettys, entitled The criminal mastermind: bufferbloat and Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another. In a nutshell, the point is that operating systems, home routers, cable modems, etc. are buffering too much data, which hurts the performance of TCP because it doesn't get notification of congestion. His results show that the performance effects of poorly tuned buffer sizes are dramatic and widespread. It's an interesting read.