[Bloat] sigcomm wifi

[Dave Taht]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Eggert, Lars <lars at netapp.com> wrote:
> On 2014-8-19, at 18:45, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I figured y'all would be bemused by the wifi performance in the sigcomm
>> main conference room this morning...
>>
>> http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/sigcomm_tuesday.png
>
> There is a reason we budgeted a 1G uplink for SIGCOMM Helsinki and made sure we had sufficient AP coverage...
>
> Lars

My kvetch is mostly that here I am at a con that presents
"revolutionary" congestion control algorithms every year,
and I am watching preso after preso that talks about SDN using
"commodity switches" and analyses that look at all this "big data"...

...and the entire conference is crippled from doing anything on the
internet due to bad wifi...

and nobody considered solving that problem "interesting"; they merely
complained loudly to everyone in earshot about it.

Near as I can tell there are no papers on wifi here.

At one point there was 85% packet loss and the only thing that even
halfway worked was mosh.

-- 
Dave Täht

NSFW: https://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/russell_0296_indecent.article