[Bloat] [Rpm] the grinch meets cloudflare's christmas present

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Jan 4 18:00:56 EST 2023


On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 15:11:34 -0500
David Collier-Brown via Bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> On 1/4/23 15:02, rjmcmahon via Bloat wrote:
> > Curious to why people keep calling capacity tests speed tests? A semi 
> > at 55 mph isn't faster than a porsche at 141 mph because its load 
> > volume is larger.  
> 
> They're trying to make the results sound more attractive. They know the 
> customer would prefer a porsche, but what they have to sell them are 
> semi-trailers.
> 
> --dave
> 
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Interesting, the cloudflare test gets much worse results than others.
It maybe because it defaults to IPV6 by default and ISP does not support
real IPV6.


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