[Bloat] Open Source Speed Test (was fast.com - Netflix's speed monitoring)

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Aug 24 12:08:47 EDT 2016


On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:42:07 +0000
"Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood at comcast.com> wrote:

> FWIW, we at Comcast just announced public beta of a new soon-to-be-open-source web-based speed test (see http://labs.comcast.com/beta-testing-a-new-open-source-speed-test). We plan to have a hackathon at Princeton in early November (see https://citp.princeton.edu/event/speedtest-hackathon/). One of the items in the backlog and suggested for one of the hackathon teams to work on is a buffer bloat test. 
> 
> If anyone here is interested in participating, ping me off-list (we have a limited number of spots available).
> 
> Thanks!
> Jason
> 

Why doesn't the test measure bufferbloat like FLENT or dslreports test?


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