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

[Rick Jones]

On 04/23/2015 08:39 PM, Dave Taht wrote:
> I have also sent mail and tweets to no effect.
>
> I hereby donate 1k to the "bufferbloat testing vs gogo-in-flight legal
> defense fund".  Anyone that gets busted by testing for bufferbloat on
> an airplane using these new tools or the rrul test can tap me for
> that. Anyone else willing to chip in?[1]
>
> I note that tweeting in the air after such a test might be impossible
> (on at least one bloat test done so far the connection never came
> back) so you'd probably have to tweet something like
>
> "I am about to test for bufferbloat on my flight. If I do not tweet
> again for the next 4 hours, I blew up gogo-in-flight, and expect to be
> met by secret service agents on landing with no sense of humor about
> how network congestion control is supposed to work."
>
> FIRST. (and shrink the above to 140 pithy characters)
>
> [1] I guess this makes me liable for inciting someone to do a network
> test, also, which I hope is not illegal (?). I personally don't want
> to do the test as I have better things to do than rewrite walden and
> am not fond of roomates named "bubba".
>
> ... but I admit to being tempted.

Please don't.  I don't want netperf classified as a munition :)

Plausible deniability might be your friend.  "All I was doing was trying 
to [upload my 1 GB powerpoint presentation I just finished | download 
the 1 GB powerpoint presentation I had to work-on ] and it seemed to be 
taking forever, so I was worried something was wrong and decided to ping 
to check connectivity.  That is when I noticed the latency was so high..."

rick jones

Anyone who wants to read the story about how netperf took-out a 
corporate video security system - twice - and why the netperf UDP_STREAM 
test is no longer over a routable socket by default should feel free to 
contact me.