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

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 30/07/15 06:52, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, David Lang wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Measuring latency is doable (using the same mechanism that traceroute
> with for instance max-ttl 5), but I don't know how much of this is
> available to your web application?
> 
> If you sent 5 packets with TTL 1-5 and measured the time to get back the
> ttl-expired-in-transit ICMP, you could get an indication where the
> latency increase was happening.

Yes, that's what I had in mind.