[Bloat] grading bloat better

jb justin at dslr.net
Wed Oct 12 20:57:24 EDT 2016


It is done
under the trimmed mean method, that would be a "C" grade result.



On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:46 AM, jb <justin at dslr.net> wrote:

> Actually I think the concept I need is the trimmed mean.
> throwing away the highest couple of values (lowest couple are not to be
> thrown away because they can't be errant).
> It isn't perfect but it would help.
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 11:39 AM, jb <justin at dslr.net> wrote:
>
>> A while ago I changed from mean to median with the reasoning being that
>> one spike to a crazy level was not representative of bloat but instead
>> representative of a network stall or other anomaly. Graphs that were nearly
>> all good samples with one outlier were being unfairly graded poorly.
>>
>> But this example has the opposite issue - the median of this set of
>> samples is the first half where everything is ok. Hence the good score.
>> Using a mean would be correct for this sample.
>> What should happen is to throw away a couple (max) outliers first, then
>> do a mean to avoid punishing the results that come in as good but include
>> one errant measurement.
>>
>> thanks
>> -Justin
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This has major bloat happening at the end of the upload test. Which
>>> worries me - here, at a gbit.
>>>
>>> http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/5284047
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dave Täht
>>> Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software!
>>> http://blog.cerowrt.org
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>>
>>
>
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