[Bloat] Rigorous Coffee Shop Bloat Testing

[Kenneth Porter]

On 9/3/2019 5:40 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> There was a recent Wall Street Journal article that faster Internet doesn't mean anything.
> https://www.wsj.com/graphics/faster-internet-not-worth-it/
>
> I just thought "faster Internet just exposes your existing Bufferbloat"

I hit a paywall trying to read that so I looked up the article title and 
found some interesting commentary:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/08/20/1450204/the-truth-about-faster-internet-its-not-worth-it

https://stopthecap.com/2019/08/20/wall-street-journal-says-faster-internet-not-worth-it-but-they-ignore-bottlenecks-and-data-caps/

Most people are streamers and won't fill a fat pipe. The big winners of 
fast Internet are people who want to download a huge game and play it 
quickly. But those are rare. (I'm a gamer but I'm patient and can wait a 
day to play so I'm happy to save money on a cheaper package that can be 
used for something else.)

As you say, when people report slow Internet, it's probably bloat, not 
the speed of the package. But faster packages make money for the ISPs.