Since you are set on the math, but weak on the physics, a great book for a conceptual understanding of physics is called Conceptual Physics: http://www.conceptualphysics.com/
Grab the Tomato firmware for your Linksys. Tomato's QoS features are much easier to configure than others like DDWRT. With Tomato, you don't need to be a Linux networking guru to do what you want.
Tomato also handles P2P very well. You can pound a WRT54 running Tomato with heavy P2P traffic 24/7 for months with no perfmrance problems. No resets required.
Grab it here http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato/ I have the latest Tomato firmware for my Linksys router (WRT54G). How do I configure the QoS to prevent P2P from crippling the connection and making internet browsing quite slow?
Since you are set on the math, but weak on the physics, a great book for a conceptual understanding of physics is called Conceptual Physics: http://www.conceptualphysics.com/
Finally the Bush administration does something useful.
Hi, how can I set up DD-WRT & QoS on Linksys WRT54G with the latest Tomato Firmware already installed? Thanks! -NKA