[LibreQoS] Measuring 5G Bloat (Was 5G going south)

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 10:25:28 EDT 2022


Jason: OK to add a few bleeding edge non-5g fixed wireless networks to the mix?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 7:21 AM Livingood, Jason
<Jason_Livingood at comcast.com> wrote:
>
> FWIW - I'm working with a few measurement networks and researchers that are very soon deploying measurement probes - in the US - on 5G fixed wireless access connections and LEO (Starlink). These probes range on the low end from RIPE Atlas to higher end RPi-based probes. If you are interested in hosting one of these probes email me OFF-LIST:
> - Your name
> - Your shipping address
> - Your ISP name [FWA or LEO]
>
> Some of these researchers are ready to ship probes in a couple of weeks and I'll have a bunch of RIPE Atlas probes ready to ship in about a month.
>
> Thanks!
> Jason
>
> On 10/28/22, 17:10, "Bloat on behalf of jf--- via Bloat" <bloat-bounces at lists.bufferbloat.net on behalf of bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>
>     We’ve observed growing variability on some TMHI setups from our fleet, and it seems there is a correlation to usage growth on a single tower. Seems neighbors talk to hear other after all ;-)
>
>     And yes, horrible bufferbloat on these variable capacity links.
>
>     > The author switched to verizon, but what guarantees of continued
>     > reliability does one have?
>
>     It seems none ATM, as it really depends on user density vs tower capacity. Woe to those that share a tower with a busy highway, ‘rush hour’ likely means low capacity and even higher latencies.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Jonathan Foulkes
>
>
>     > On Oct 27, 2022, at 11:37 PM, Dave Taht via Bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>     >
>     > This had some details as to the things that could go wrong from an
>     > initial happy install of t-mobile, to something terrible.
>     >
>     > The author switched to verizon, but what guarantees of continued
>     > reliability does one have?
>     >
>     > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://blog.networkprofile.org/redundant-wan-ditching-t-mobile-5g-for-verizon-5g/__;!!CQl3mcHX2A!DZPmyvCVso3V5VJsCmkvtzgtr5uBLoBSFpjGmKungaWqn5HKuLeCMgmCPiPY0rYPhiQN3Dl6jLyoUia5Gx94K7-U5YFaQA$
>     >
>     > (both services had horrible bufferbloat)
>     >
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