[Bloat] DSLReports Speed Test has latency measurement built-in

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 19 Apr, 2015, at 20:45, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> 
> Why not? They can be a quite useful measure of how competing traffic
> performs when bulk flows congest the link. Which for many applications
> is more important then the latency experienced by the bulk flow
> itself.

One clear objection is that ICMP is often prioritised when UDP is not.  So measuring with UDP gives a better indication in those cases.  Measuring with a separate TCP flow, such as HTTPing, is better still by some measures, but most truly latency-sensitive traffic does use UDP.

 - Jonathan Morton