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

[jf at jonathanfoulkes.com]

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:

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And an Ookla test run just afterward:

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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/
> 
> 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:
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