[Bloat] [LibreQoS] gamebench quote

[MORTON JR., AL]

Hi Dave, all,

I’m taking a slightly contrarian position here:

When I read, “...that latency has now clearly overtaken broadband speed ...”,
IMO, it’s only correct when we include the efforts to increase uplink speeds, and can therefore minimize the complexity of low-layer uplink protocols. The continued suppression of uplink speeds in simplified marketing helps users overlook a critical factor in ISP service.

In other words, all the terrestrial access “wants to be fiber”.

Example: We stayed at my frugal brother-in-law’s home, where he had purchased the low-end rate offered by his fiber-based ISP. It was 25Mbps, symmetrical rates. The bottom line is that this was a perfectly adequate service offer for zoom conferences and streaming video viewing. My measurements confirmed the rates, and that packet transfer had few defects.

So for me, the 3 pillars are: sufficient capacity for *all* users involved, symmetrical uplink bit rate, and the upstream access protocol should converge to zilch*, all leading to few impairments, including latency.

Al

* this is hard to achieve without the first two...


From: LibreQoS <libreqos-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net> On Behalf Of Sebastian Moeller via LibreQoS
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2022 3:41 AM
To: Robert Chacón <robert.chacon at jackrabbitwireless.com>; Robert Chacón via Bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net>; dan <dandenson at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [LibreQoS] [Bloat] gamebench quote

Hi Robert,

This is surprisingly rich in useful information and quite lean on marketing (given that this is marketing material having easily accessible links to source material is unusually open*). Nice.

Regards
Sebastian

*) Personally that approach would likely reel me in as customer, if I lived in your service area ;)

On 14 November 2022 00:16:57 CET, "Robert Chacón via Bloat" <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net<mailto:bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net>> wrote:
Same here. We compete primarily against Charter Spectrum in the suburbs.
Gamers and twitch streamers switch to us frequently due to the high upload bloat and jitter on Spectrum's network.
We made a page on our website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/jackrabbitwireless.com/performance/__;!!BhdT!kq0CZoKMKwb2D8vdc8m1LDfa-BJWX-jfpGlXkqKM_mh-jgFcOVh7zh5KRsV_tQ4Wp9_zLRd_OiYVkubsR8Jq6OA$> that tries to educate prospective clients about latency and bloat. I added the GameBench quote to it (thanks, Dave!)
Surprisingly, some people do read it and it helps ease their minds about "speed" when they're used to being bombarded with messaging about needing gigabit bandwidth.

> I'm happy enough if TDS and Spectrum take their sweet time figuring out that latency is important :D

This! That and their inability to really do whole-home WiFi at scale helps WISPs offer a true performance answer to cable internet.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 3:56 PM dan via LibreQoS <libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net<mailto:libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net>> wrote:
This is definitely our focus.  We preach low latency first and better uploads second, downloads are a distant third.  We do have to advertise the faster speeds just to get into the conversation because Spectrum for example and now TDS are all about 1G or 2G services.  See my other email though, Spectrum's latency and jitter is garbage, TDS is actually worse than that to many services but I don't have a remote login to a TDS site at the moment.  I'm 15ms more from AWS Oregon on TDS than Spectrum, and I'm 20ms better than Spectrum on Lumen DIA.

I'm happy enough if TDS and Spectrum take their sweet time figuring out that latency is important :D

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 3:52 PM Dave Taht via LibreQoS <libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net<mailto:libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net>> wrote:
https://www.gamebench.net/network-performance-and-gamer-experience-the-us-edition/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.gamebench.net/network-performance-and-gamer-experience-the-us-edition/__;!!BhdT!kq0CZoKMKwb2D8vdc8m1LDfa-BJWX-jfpGlXkqKM_mh-jgFcOVh7zh5KRsV_tQ4Wp9_zLRd_OiYVkubsfy00yj4$>

"Overall, the consistently reinforced takeaway is that latency has now
clearly overtaken broadband speed as the focus area for network
providers seeking to provide – and guarantee and commercially benefit
from – optimum experience in both online multiplayer and cloud
gaming."

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