[Bloat] [Cake] [Make-wifi-fast] dslreports is no longer free

[Dave Taht]

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 9:37 AM Benjamin Cronce <bcronce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Fast.com reports my unloaded latency as 4ms, my loaded latency as ~7ms

I guess one of my questions is that with a switch to BBR netflix is
going to do pretty well. If fast.com is using bbr, well... that
excludes much of the current side of the internet.

> For download, I show 6ms unloaded and 6-7 loaded. But for upload the loaded shows as 7-8 and I see it blip upwards of 12ms. But I am no longer using any traffic shaping. Any anti-bufferbloat is from my ISP. A graph of the bloat would be nice.

The tests do need to last a fairly long time.

> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 9:51 AM Jannie Hanekom <jannie at hanekom.net> wrote:
>>
>> Michael Richardson <mcr at sandelman.ca>:
>> > Does it find/use my nearest Netflix cache?
>>
>> Thankfully, it appears so.  The DSLReports bloat test was interesting, but
>> the jitter on the ~240ms base latency from South Africa (and other parts of
>> the world) was significant enough that the figures returned were often
>> unreliable and largely unusable - at least in my experience.
>>
>> Fast.com reports my unloaded latency as 4ms, my loaded latency as ~7ms and
>> mentions servers located in local cities.  I finally have a test I can share
>> with local non-technical people!
>>
>> (Agreed, upload test would be nice, but this is a huge step forward from
>> what I had access to before.)
>>
>> Jannie Hanekom
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