[Bloat] extremely good dslreports result for bufferbloat on free.fr

Rich Brown richb.hanover at gmail.com
Thu Apr 30 20:48:54 EDT 2015


> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:33 PM, jb <justin at dslr.net> wrote:
> ...
>> if it did get a rating it would be an "D" or "F"..
> 
> How about "E" for error? That can be further explained in the text
> "Sometimes the bloat is so bad that we cannot adaquately test for it -
> and other times there is something else badly wrong with the link that
> we cannot identify."

I would stay away from a letter grade for that state, since it could appear to be on the continuum of A+, A, B, C, D, E (?) F...

Better to give it a "-" or "?" mark. And if they hover over the "?", let the text show: "Sometimes the bloat is so bad that we cannot adaquately test for it - and other times there is something else badly wrong with the link that we cannot identify."

Rich


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