[Cerowrt-devel] SInce I mentioned this crew's work in a post, I don't want anyone to be surprised.

[David Lang]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Dave Taht wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:26 AM,  <dpreed at reed.com> wrote:
>> GoGo does not need to run “Man in the Middle Attacks” on YouTube
>
> re: http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/?p=174
>
> I amplified via g+ and mentioned to slashdot.
> (http://slashdot.org/submission/4107907/gogo-airline-network-blocks-youtube-when-they-could-just-fix-their-bufferbloat
> )  I don't use reddit, but if someone here wants to hit this topic
> there, perhaps it will help.
>
> I am very perturbed by the https interception stuff and agree that
> they should fix their bufferbloat instead! So should amtrak and other
> services trying to provide general useful email and web services when
> they too have limited bandwidth... in an age where people want dancing
> cat videos on the move and are completely ignorant of the hit on the
> network that induces.
>
> I have quite a few benchmarks of Gogo in flight. They all suck. I
> think the best deployable solution would require reworking their
> satellite uplink management to be available bandwidth aware...
> although I think they could get quite a lot of mileage out of merely
> rate limiting and fq_codeling at the airplane itself.
>
> I note that we have not extensively tested fq_codel at the latencies
> typically experienced here and probably should!

does anyone know someone on a satellite connection? I think I know one person 
who is.

David Lang