From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bifrost.lang.hm (mail.lang.hm [64.81.33.126]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0392E21F616 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asgard.lang.hm (asgard.lang.hm [10.0.0.100]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id s6PKviiO005849; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:57:44 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:57:44 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Wes Felter In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Ideas on how to simplify and popularize bufferbloat control for consideration. X-BeenThere: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Development issues regarding the cerowrt test router project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:57:48 -0000 On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Wes Felter wrote: > The Netgear stock firmware measures bandwidth on every boot or link up (not > sure which) and I would suggest doing the same for CeroWRT. > > Do you need to measure Internet bandwidth or last mile bandwidth? For link > bandwidth it seems like you can solve a lot of problems by measuring to the > first hop router. Does the packer pair technique work on TDMA link layers > like DOCSIS? The trouble is that to measure bandwidth, you have to be able to send and receive a lot of traffic. unless the router you are connecting to is running some sort of service to support that, you can't just test that link, you have to connect to something beyond that. David Lang