Excellent job Richard! Those slides are very clean and informative and you got fantastic real life user reports! Point #1 is very common: lots of behind-the-scenes javascript, buffering, asynchronous requests, facebook chat box and updates, etc. I was trying to make a mock conversation for the purpose of providing a story backing up the debloating efforts so that end users realize better what's going on. Please, guys, have a look and comment: https://soltysiak.com/wiki/index.php/BB_dialog Part 1 is an intro, also touching on tiered ISP services. Part 2 would be what bufferbloat is all about. Part 3 is an outro to have the users have a take-home message, also touching on DPI and other evil stuff ISPs do trying to workaround the issues. You can edit that wiki. I couldn't post it on bufferbloat.net wiki because I don't seem to have privilege to create new pages so I setup my own. Regards, Maciej On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Richard Brown wrote: > Folks, > > I gave the talk to the local Linux User Group on Thursday, and it went > really well. Two people came up to me after the talk and said, in effect, > "You know, I think I've seen this. But I've always blamed something else." > Their experience: > > - Attempting to Skype with a bunch of web browser tabs open gives bad > results. Closing the tabs made things better. (They been blaming the > browser for "using too much memory". Now it's possible to think that it's a > network problem.) > > - Another person reported that his network connection (wireless ISP, two > hops to a wired network) seemed to work OK as long as his household was > mostly downloading. But uploading much of anything really made things bad. > > I posted the slides at > http://www.bufferbloat.net/attachments/download/148/Bufferbloat-DLSLUG-Dec2012.pdf > > Rich > > PS I've updated the CeroWrt site to include links to a bunch of relevant > videos. (http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/wiki/Bloat-videos) > Please let me know if there are others that we should point to. > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Richard E. Brown > wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > I am planning to give a talk about Bufferbloat to the local Linux User > Group next week (http://dlslug.org). All this traffic on the list is > fantastic, because it gives me a lot of background on the current state of > bufferbloat. I've pulled together a bunch of general questions about > CeroWrt that I would like to be able to cover if they come up: > > > > - Is it true that the latest CeroWrt is Sugarland 3.3.8-26 from > mid-September? (My router is using this build - r33460.) > > > > - I see the "QoS" item in the Network tab of the web GUI. Is this > important for Sugarland? Or does some other router configuration take care > of this now? > > > > - What's the relationship between the QoS GUI item above and the > debloat.sh and simple_qos.sh scripts that have been mentioned on this list? > What's the best practice here for getting a router up and running? > > > > - I can see how the CeroWrt de-bloating algorithms help protect against > bad latency when I'm *uploading* big files. I'm not sure whether using > CeroWrt with its CoDel/FQ/SFQ/etc. helps when I'm downloading big files, > though. What can I say about this? > > > > - I believe the default DNS server in Sugarland is dnsmasq, not bind. Is > DNSSEC enabled by default? Also: there's a report (Bug #411) that says that > DNS is leaking internal names to the outside world. What's the best advice > for closing this? ("list notinterface 'ge00'" is one recommendation…) > > > > - I've been assembling information about the various de-bloating > techniques implemented in CeroWrt. It seems that Infoblox has recently > reorganized their blogs, and the links published earlier this week have all > broken. Here are updates: > > > > > http://www.infoblox.com/community/blog/application-analysis-using-tcp-retransmissions-part-1 > > > http://www.infoblox.com/community/blog/application-analysis-using-tcp-retransmissions-part-2 > > http://www.infoblox.com/community/blog/router-buffer-tuning > > > http://www.infoblox.com/community/blog/rethinking-interface-error-reports > > > > My plan is to give a little of the science behind bufferbloat mitigation > and also put in a plug for CeroWrt. Any topics I haven't already mentioned > that I should? Thanks! > > > > Rich Brown > > Hanover, NH USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel >