[Bloat] bufferbloat paper

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue Jan 8 14:03:29 EST 2013


> Aside from their dataset having absolutely no reflection on the reality of
> the 99.999% of home users running at speeds two or three or *more* orders of
> magnitude below that speed, it seems like a nice paper. 

Did any of their 90 homes contained laptops connected over WiFi? 


> Here is a plot (also at http://web.mit.edu/keithw/www/verizondown.png) from
> a computer tethered to a Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.4 on
> Verizon LTE service, taken just now in Cambridge, Mass. 

Neat.  Thanks.

Any ideas on what happened at 120 seconds?  Is that a pattern I should 
recognize?

Is there an event that triggers it?  Is it something as simple as a single 
lost packet?



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