[Bloat] Speed tests - attribution of latency to relevant network hops

[David Lang]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, Jan Ceuleers wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> Now that dslreports has set the benchmark on combining speed testing
> with latency measurements I was thinking about what the next steps could
> be. Here's what I came up with:
>
> Would it be useful to try and attribute the latency to certain relevant
> network hops, like so:
>
> First hop: round-trip latency of the link connecting the user's machine
> to their local network. This could be wifi or Ethernet in a home or
> office environment; it could be wifi or cellular in a public
> environment, etc.
>
> Local network: round-trip latency to the first upstream port that has a
> public IP address. Of course this is only useful if the user's machine
> doesn't already have a routable IP address.
>
> ISP: round-trip latency to the second upstream port that has a public IP
> address. So this would be the DSLAM/BRAS/CMTS or whatever access
> concentrator the ISP uses.
>
> This would probably need to be based on ping. Which IP addresses to ping
> would initially need to be found out through traceroute-like methods.
>
> If we can then get users to tell us not only what Internet access
> technology they use (i.e. cable, DSL, GPON etc) but also what local
> access technology (i.e. wifi, Ethernet etc) we'd know how to attribute
> the above numbers to technologies.

unless you measure it per hop, how are you going to attribute it to each hop? 
and unless you have a server at that layer to talk to, how do you know what the 
latency or bandwidth is?

David Lang