From: jb <justin@dslr.net>
Cc: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Fwd: dslreports and inbound rate shaping
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 21:33:31 +1000 [thread overview]
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The test, and the issue of buffer bloat, got some coverage today
in the Houston Chronicle:
http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2015/05/new-speed-test-at-dslreports/
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Alan Jenkins <
alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/05/15 22:39, jb wrote:
>
> Regarding this part:
>
> > The baseline latency is because the bloat measurement uses a single
> websocket ping server in America. Justin said in the forums it didn't seem
> worth the effort to set up more of them. Seems worth an faq item though :(.
>
> Below huge speeds, upload testing is done with web socket now,
> so there is a websocket address on every server now anyway.
>
> The baseline pinging to dslreports.com doesn't seem broken
> but if necessary it can be changed to baseline pinging to the
> nearest server, wherever that is.
>
>
> Personally I might be skewed by using Firefox on Linux, I don't see the
> awesome live bloat-meter, only the awesome bloat graphs.
>
> PS My firefox also doesn't show the new graph-based speedtest history. I
> disabled the obvious culprits (noscript, ghostery, ublock) & there's
> nothing on the JS console. Happy to help if needed.
>
> "Fixing" the bufferbloat ping graph would make it more directly comparable
> to the pings on other speedtests. I think that makes the bufferbloat point
> clearer. Again the issue is outside the US; in the UK I see a 100ms
> "baseline". If it's simple to start using nearer servers, that would make
> me very happy :).
>
> I agree it's not "broken". (I also use netperf-eu at 59ms). It's just
> confusing to interpret, if you don't already know what bufferbloat is going
> to look like.
>
> Particularly as the "expected" low ping value shown at the start. The
> 100ms server isn't even shown on the ping radar part.
>
> If it's easier to just call out the destination country on the bufferbloat
> ping, or fudge the figures convincingly (just graph the increases from a
> minimum), that would answer my point too.
>
> Thanks
> Alan
>
> > > The elephant in my personal room is the high latency baseline
>
>> > measurement. None of the ping response time test sites I've checked
>> > give me anywhere near a baseline ping rtt of 100ms. Even dslreports
>> > say "London UK is ~10ms, Google Europe is ~17ms, Dublin, Ireland, EU
>> > is ~20ms, Frankfurt, DE, EU is ~27ms" So I clearly don't
>> > understand some thing(s) about this test.
>> >
>> > Anyway, that's been an interesting 2 hours of playing!
>> >
>> > Kevin
>>
>> Good fun :).
>>
>> The baseline latency is because the bloat measurement uses a single
>> websocket ping server in America. Justin said in the forums it didn't seem
>> worth the effort to set up more of them. Seems worth an faq item though :(.
>>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-26 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-19 19:17 [Bloat] " Dave Taht
2015-05-19 22:37 ` [Bloat] Fwd: " Dave Taht
2015-05-20 12:47 ` Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
2015-05-22 14:05 ` Alan Jenkins
2015-05-25 21:39 ` jb
2015-05-26 9:13 ` Alan Jenkins
2015-05-26 11:33 ` jb [this message]
2015-05-20 13:02 ` Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
2015-05-21 16:21 ` [Bloat] [Cake] " Jonathan Morton
2015-05-21 15:07 ` Kathleen Nichols
2015-05-21 15:26 ` Jonathan Morton
2015-05-21 16:31 ` Kathleen Nichols
2015-05-21 16:39 ` Jonathan Morton
2015-05-22 3:41 ` Aaron Wood
2015-05-22 6:32 ` Jonathan Morton
2015-05-22 10:57 ` Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
2015-05-22 11:07 ` Jonathan Morton
2015-05-22 11:16 ` Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
2015-05-25 11:26 ` [Bloat] " Mikael Abrahamsson
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