[Bloat] new public web tests for bufferbloat

Alan Jenkins alan.christopher.jenkins at gmail.com
Wed Jun 1 19:06:40 EDT 2016


On 02/06/2016, Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/06/2016, Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/06/2016, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> see: http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/
>>>
>>> (can't test myself, not being in england - can someone there test it
>>> and post results/screenshots?)
>>
>> http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html?id=1464821570474383655
>>
>> (OpenWrt SQM. ISP _download_ is un-bloated already, for reasonable
>> numbers of streams. Though even with SQM, downloading multiple
>> torrents in Transmission can cause both latency up to 100ms & packet
>> loss).
>
> oops...
>
> the results page above omits the bufferbloat result.  The original
> result has a sharing button that requires a Facebook login.  Here's
> the screenshot
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49925445/bufferbloat.net/thinkbroadband.com/2016-06-01%20labs.thinkbroadband.com%20speedtest.png

Sorry for noise, I should also say:

The latency: 58ms is due to testing on wifi (I guess it's the minimum
over a number of pings).  The "A" grades for bufferbloat do not seem
expandable / clickable

>>> and:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/speedtest/
>>>
>>> which is quite pretty, if mildly confusing.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have issues with the language and testing methodologies, of course,
>>> but it is good to see these arrive. When will speedtest.net get it
>>> right?
>


-- 
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?


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