Hi Bob, What simple end users would need is (semi-)public iperf2 servers accessible over the internet to be comparably easy to use as iperf3.... Regards Sebastian On 6 December 2022 18:46:18 CET, rjmcmahon via Make-wifi-fast wrote: >Nice write up and work over the years. > >On tooling: > >iperf 2 supports full duplex, multiple parallel streams, tx start times, bounceback, isochronous, etc. Man page is here > >https://iperf2.sourceforge.io/iperf-manpage.html > >The flows code in the flows directory > >https://sourceforge.net/p/iperf2/code/ci/master/tree/flows/ > >is written in python 3 and leverages asyncio. > >https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html > >This is all released as open source. > >Bob >> This is where things stood on the wifi front, back in 2016. Nobody >> understood us... >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Se36svYE1Uzpppe1HWnEyat_sAGghB3kE285LElJBW4/edit# >> >> So I sort of enjoyed re-reading that this morning, and all the >> enthusiastic commentary we'd had on it. Perhaps we can reshape it and >> find ways to move forward today? >> >> I am happy to have seen so many products hitting the market 5+ years >> later that leverage this work, many openwrt derived, like evenroute, >> quantum, and openwifi, others from pure linux, like eero and google >> fiber, and so far as I can tell, in many a chromebook, and of course >> ios and osx. >> >> Still, there was so much work left to be done, and the work applied to >> all forms of wireless technology, be it 6 or 12ghz, or 60ghz, or >> starlink. Just the other day I was watching a 5G engineer that was >> struggling to get decent simultaneous throughput up and down, the test >> tool showing that, but not the 25 seconds of buffering built into the >> rmnet driver in poor conditions, and "only" 150ms perfect ones. This >> test tool shows "perfect" throughput for this device: >> >> https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg865852.html >> (anyone know which tool it was? see image here: >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gSbozrtd9h0X63i6vdkNpN68d-9sg8f9/view >> ) >> >> vs the actual, underlying, unusable 25 seconds!!! - result - if only >> that test tool attempted to start up even one more flow partially >> through the test, perhaps we'd be getting somewhere. An increasingly >> favorite test of mine is the staggered start "squarewave" tests in the >> flent suite. For those that haven't tried it, crusader is the first >> tool I've seen that not only has a staggered start latency under load >> test, but as its written in rust, runs on every OS in the planet. Give >> it a shot? >> >> https://github.com/Zoxc/crusader/releases/tag/v0.0.9-testing >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Rpm mailing list >> Rpm@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/rpm >_______________________________________________ >Make-wifi-fast mailing list >Make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net >https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/make-wifi-fast -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.