[Starlink] plotting all the data

[Dave Taht]

Capturing and plotting *all* the data is often revealing. 

Sometimes plotting the data you are discarding (for what seems like sane reasons) is quite revealing.  Saw this on slashdot this morning, it’s good...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/when-graphs-are-a-matter-of-life-and-death

In the bufferbloat effort I’ve fought time and time again for folk to stop throwing out data above the 95 percentile, and at the very least plot everything they threw out to find patterns...

dslreports’ graphing tools, for example, throws out a ton of “outliers" … and the only reason why there is no data past 4 sec here, is that the test doesn’t run long enough. 

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/bufferbloat?up=1

(been trying to get ahold of someone over there to buy their raw data for years now. They have the biggest - 8 years worth - collection)

mlabs has a similar data reduction issue that they haven’t got around to fixing. 

And more recently we encountered a smoothing problem in wireshark that made a halt in packet processing look more like a normal tcp cwnd cut….