[Bloat] Ookla - Introducing a Better Measure of Latency

[Christoph Paasch]

I'm not aware of any rigorous study. But, just from the code, I know ICMP ping in many cases has a different traffic-class and thus implicitly gets quite a different treatment than real traffic.

However, Ookla uses TCP (port 8080) to probe the latency in their app.


Christoph

> On May 12, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Kathleen Nichols <nichols at pollere.net> wrote:
> 
> a ping by any other name...
> 
> Has anyone ever done a rigorous study to see how well ping delays correspond to the delay that information-carrying packets experience?
> 
> On 5/12/22 10:15 AM, Christoph Paasch via Bloat wrote:
>> Ookla's measure of "loaded latency":
>> https://www.ookla.com/articles/introducing-loaded-latency <https://www.ookla.com/articles/introducing-loaded-latency>
>> This will hopefully be a shift in how operators approach the bufferbloat problem.
>> Christoph
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