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From: dpreed@reed.com
To: "Rich Brown" <richb.hanover@gmail.com>
Cc: "Wes Felter" <wmf@felter.org>,
	bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
	"cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net"
	<cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>,
	"Joel Wirāmu Pauling" <joel@aenertia.net>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] Fixing bufferbloat: How about an open letter to the web benchmarkers?
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:35:43 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1410482143.8059509@apps.rackspace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A08116CF-B888-4C44-ABC6-2E6C80474C8B@gmail.com>

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Among friends of mine, we can publicize this widely.  But those friends probably would like to see how the measurement would work.


On Thursday, September 11, 2014 8:13pm, "Rich Brown" <richb.hanover@gmail.com> said:



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> Dave,
> 
> I'll sign too. (And I like the 98th percentile measure for each direction to give
> a single number that represents what's happening. It could include ping loss rate,
> as well...)
> 
> But more importantly, an open letter would likely be more powerful than the
> results I got from sending a note to the purveyors of speed tests. I've appended
> the note I sent about six weeks ago. And here's a paraphrase of their responses.
> (None of them seem to have twigged to the value of measuring bloat.)
> 
> speedtest.net - We wanted to follow up and let you know that are developers were
> informed of your ideas.
> 
> speedof.me - We may add such features in future versions
> 
> testmy.net - I think you're really going to like my next version... you'll be
> provided a much deeper insight.
> 
> There's a flock of other vendors - I just googled "Internet speed test" and got a
> dozen or so more. Many are served by Ookla/Speedtest.net, but many seem to have
> independent implementations...
> 
> I'll pull together a list of people to send the open letter to (trade press, etc)
> 
> Rich
> 
> ----- Summary of note sent to these speed test vendors in early August 2014 -----
> Hi!
> 
> I would love to see real-time latency measurements, and a summary of min and max
> times in the final report. Your page currently displays a single "latency" value,
> but it appears that it's simply the measurement before you start the data
> transfers. It's really interesting to see that low value, but also the range/max
> of the latency.
> 
> Why is latency interesting? I'm a member of the CeroWrt project that is working to
> reduce latency in home routers (and everywhere else). Our research has led to the
> development and testing of the fq_codel algorithm that virtually eliminates
> bufferbloat (high latency during heavy traffic). You can read about the project
> at: http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt
> 
> I'm asking you to consider implementing the web-equivalent of our "Quick Test for
> Bufferbloat"http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/Quick_Test_for_Bufferbloat
> By showing what happens to latency during transfers, people can become aware of
> the problem, and that there's a fix for it. (I'm using the CeroWrt firmware at my
> house. Ping times to Google only go up by ~20-30 msec even when I max out the DSL
> link in both directions.)
> 
> 
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-12  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-11 16:03 [Cerowrt-devel] " Dave Taht
2014-09-11 16:35 ` [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] " Pedro Tumusok
2014-09-11 18:19 ` [Cerowrt-devel] " Maciej Soltysiak
2014-09-11 18:33   ` David Personette
2014-09-12  0:13 ` [Cerowrt-devel] [Bloat] " Rich Brown
2014-09-12  0:35   ` dpreed [this message]
2014-09-12  0:42     ` Jonathan Morton
2014-09-12  1:24       ` dpreed
2014-09-12  1:49         ` Joel Wirāmu Pauling
2014-09-12  2:04           ` Jonathan Morton
2014-09-12  2:11             ` Joel Wirāmu Pauling
2014-09-12  1:48       ` Rich Brown
2014-09-12 15:24         ` Rick Jones
2014-09-13  0:19           ` David P. Reed
2014-09-12  7:17   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-12 12:16     ` Rich Brown
2014-09-12 12:55       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2014-09-12  0:31 ` [Cerowrt-devel] " dpreed
2014-09-12  9:44 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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