[Bloat] dslreports mockup

[Rich Brown]

That is interesting. I'm trying to think how the latency charts could be misconstrued, since a Y-axis on the right isn't the norm - I don't think it's hard to understand, but just different. 

The display as-is clearly shows that the download is badly bloated, but the upload is fine. That's the important message for most people at home.  But as a researcher, you want to understand the details of the upload. So having different scales would help you see better into the problem. 

* If the download and upload values are substantially similar, the left and right Y-axis scales should be the same, so there wouldn't be confusion

* If the values are substantially different (as in this screen shot), the pink and yellow backgrounds (on the left) and the lack of them on the right would provide a solid cue that there is something different going on between the two charts.

* On the other hand, the report already shows different Y-axis values for the down/upload speeds, so the latency charts could mimic the speeds...

Other thoughts?

Rich

On May 20, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wanted to be able to have separated charts for up and down on
> different scales, so I took apart what exists today in gimp and got
> this:
> 
> http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/dslreportsmockup.png
> 
> I guess it is partially because I am getting a C on the download at
> this speed, and no A+ on the upload, and I would at least like to get
> a gold star from teacher for effort. :/
> 
> I dunno how to fix the download short of getting rid of several
> seconds of inherent buffering in their CMTS. There must be a simple
> way to do that??
> 
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