[Bloat] I hate my ISP

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 03/05/2020 05:57, Taran Lynn wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> So evidently Viasat doesn't know how to handle bufferbloat at all with
> their exede satellite service. It's been really bad today. I've attached
> flent's tcp_1up results for those interested. Note that the base RTT is
> 600ms and upload is usually 5Mbps. I don't have the rrul test results
> because that test kept crashing >(.
> 
> Now I'm going to go back to watching webpages take a minute to load.

Based on their Wikipedia page it seems that Viasat provide service based
on geosynchronous satellites. Your poor user experience may therefore
not be due solely to bufferbloat but rather to pure transmission latency.