[Bloat] 22 seconds til bloat on gfiber?

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Sat Oct 22 21:47:14 EDT 2016


randomly clicking around, 18 seconds to "start of bloat" on xfinity
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/5414347

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 6:33 PM, jb <justin at dslr.net> wrote:
>> This example takes about 6 seconds to get all the uploads running as
>> they are staged, and then each upload takes a while to get to full speed
>> because that is a function of  the senders TCP stack. So the smoothed
>> total transfer rate lags as well, and the whole thing doesn't start to bloat
>> out until we get to max speed.
>>
>> There is an upload duration preference that can increase the total time
>> upload or download takes but people already have no patience and
>> close the tab when they start seeing decent upload numbers,
>> so increasing it just makes the quit rate higher still. For the quitters
>> we get no results at all, other than they quit before the end of the test.
>
> I agree that waiting that long is hard on users, and that since it
> takes so long to get to that point, it will take a lot of work for a
> gfiber user to stress out the connection, on a benchmark... but in the
> real world, with a few users on the link, not so much.
>
> 400-1000ms latency when loaded counts as an "F" grade, in my opinion.
> Perhaps doing the grade calculation only when the link is observed
> near max bandwidth achieved (say, half)?
>
> There are of course, other possible reasons for such bloat, like the
> browser falling over, I wish I had a gfiber network and routing device
> to test against.
>
> Is there any way to browse
> http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/isp/r3910-google-fiber for
> like the last 20 results to see if this is a common behavior on gfiber
> for longer tests?
>
>> thanks
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> > On 23 Oct, 2016, at 00:56, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/5408767
>>>
>>> Looks like that’s how long it takes for the throughput to ramp up to link
>>> capacity.  That in turn is a function of the sender’s TCP.
>>>
>>>  - Jonathan Morton
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