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

[rjmcmahon]

The thing that works for gamers are colors, e.g. green, yellow and red. 
Basically, if the game slows down to a bothersome experience the 
"latency indicator" goes from green to yellow. If the game slows down to 
be unplayable it goes to red and the "phone" mfg gets lots of 
complaints. Why we call a handheld computer a phone is a whole other 
discussion.

Bob
> On the other hand, we would like to be comprehensible to normal users,
> especially when we want them to press their providers to deal with
> bufferbloat. Differences like speed and rate would go right over their
> heads.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 1:16 PM Ulrich Speidel via Starlink
> <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> 
>> The use of the term "speed" in communications used to be restricted
>> to the speed of light (or whatever propagation speed one happened to
>> be dealing with. Everything else was a "rate". Maybe I'm
>> old-fashioned but I think talking about "speed tests" muddies the
>> waters rather a lot.
>> 
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>> From: Starlink <starlink-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net> on behalf of
>> rjmcmahon via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2023 9:02 AM
>> To: jf at jonathanfoulkes.com <jf at jonathanfoulkes.com>
>> Cc: Cake List <cake at lists.bufferbloat.net>; IETF IPPM WG
>> <ippm at ietf.org>; libreqos <libreqos at lists.bufferbloat.net>; Dave
>> Taht via Starlink <starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net>; Rpm
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>> Subject: Re: [Starlink] [Rpm] the grinch meets cloudflare's
>> christmas present
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> Bob
>>> HNY Dave and all the rest,
>>> 
>>> Great to see yet another capacity test add latency metrics to the
>>> results. This one looks like a good start.
>>> 
>>> Results from my Windstream DOCSIS 3.1 line (3.1 on download only,
>> up
>>> is 3.0) Gigabit down / 35Mbps up provisioning. Using an IQrouter
>> Pro
>>> (an i5 x86) with Cake set for 710/31 as this ISP can’t deliver
>>> reliable low-latency unless you shave a good bit off the targets.
>> My
>>> local loop is pretty congested.
>>> 
>>> Here’s the latest Cloudflare test:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> And an Ookla test run just afterward:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> They are definitely both in the ballpark and correspond to other
>> tests
>>> run from the router itself or my (wired) MacBook Pro.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 4, 2023, at 12:26 PM, Dave Taht via Rpm
>>>> <rpm at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Please try the new, the shiny, the really wonderful test here:
>>>> https://speed.cloudflare.com/ [2]
>>>> 
>>>> I would really appreciate some independent verification of
>>>> measurements using this tool. In my brief experiments it appears
>> - as
>>>> all the commercial tools to date - to dramatically understate the
>>>> bufferbloat, on my LTE, (and my starlink terminal is out being
>>>> hacked^H^H^H^H^H^Hworked on, so I can't measure that)
>>>> 
>>>> My test of their test reports 223ms 5G latency under load , where
>>>> flent reports over 2seconds. See comparison attached.
>>>> 
>>>> My guess is that this otherwise lovely new tool, like too many,
>>>> doesn't run for long enough. Admittedly, most web objects (their
>>>> target market) are small, and so long as they remain small and
>> not
>>>> heavily pipelined this test is a very good start... but I'm
>> pretty
>>>> sure cloudflare is used for bigger uploads and downloads than
>> that.
>>>> There's no way to change the test to run longer either.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd love to get some results from other networks (compared as
>> usual to
>>>> flent), especially ones with cake on it. I'd love to know if they
>>>> measured more minimum rtts that can be obtained with fq_codel or
>> cake,
>>>> correctly.
>>>> 
>>>> Love Always,
>>>> The Grinch
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> This song goes out to all the folk that thought Stadia would
>> work:
>>>> 
>> 
> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dtaht_the-mushroom-song-activity-6981366665607352320-FXtz
>> [3]
>>>> Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC
>>>> 
>> 
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