[Bloat] [Cake] Fwd: [Galene] Dave on bufferbloat and jitter at 8pm CET Tuesday 23

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:14:31 -0800
Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> wow, that is (predictably) miserable, even with cake. The only
> solution that is going to
> work is to somehow actively monitor your link quality and adjust cake
> to suit. Or we can start trying to use kathie's passive ping tools.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 1:30 PM Nils Andreas Svee <me at lochnair.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the talk Dave and it was nice meeting you all!
> >
> > Never really did much in the way of Flent tests after moving from ADSL to Telenor's "wireless broadband" aka. 4G. So I ran some after leaving the meeting, with CAKE on or off, and let me tell you - it's terrifying, 4G sucks indeed., not as bad as DSL without SQM mind, but still
> >
> > Avg. latency without SQM at some points close to 800 ms or above. Had to sacrifice a lot of bandwidth to get it to sane levels when doing RRUL tests.
> >
> > Dumped all the files over here: https://dl.lochnair.net/Bufferbloat/Tests/
> > Oh btw I promise I'll try to not break things when you need to access something on that box again Dave...
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Nils  
> 
> 
> 

Because cable was down, used a burner SIM and a spare phone over LTE for a day.
And agree it is awful. Couldn't bring myself to run Flent over this pig with wings.