Hi Will,

Regarding my 'fat pipe' link, given that the current draft seems to recommend the 20 seconds, how about simply starting with that value, but on failure to achieve saturation do one of the following:
a) give a more detailed error message instructing the user to use the sattimeout option, maybe by printing the used command with '-sattimeout 60' or so added, so that simple copy and paste might allow the user to try again.
b) do not stop the code on this failure, but ask the user interactively whether to try again with a larger sattimeout value.

Whether that will help in the starlink case I can only guess...

Regards
Sebastian

On 23 July 2022 23:19:28 CEST, Will Hawkins <hawkinsw@obs.cr> wrote:
I am sorry that I am late to this thread. I would love to work
together to see if there are some things that we could do to make the
client more robust when someone uses it from "constrained" (to put it
nicely) environments!

Will

On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 4:26 PM Sebastian Moeller via Rpm
<rpm@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

 Hi Dave,

 maybe try:

 time ./networkQuality --config mensura.cdn-apple.com --port 443 --path /api/v1/gm/config -extended-stats -sattimeout 60

 to extend the maximal time to achieve saturation to a minute. I notice than of a fat path (1000/1000 Mbps) 20 seconds are not enough to achieve saturation, and maybe things take while on starlink as well?

 Regards
         Sebastian




 On Jul 22, 2022, at 21:00, Dave Taht via Rpm <rpm@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

 First attempt timed out. Second attempt...

 ./networkQuality --config mensura.cdn-apple.com --port 443 --path
 /api/v1/gm/config
 07-22-2022 18:58:53 UTC Go Responsiveness to mensura.cdn-apple.com:443...
 Download:  34.351 Mbps (  4.294 MBps), using 20 parallel connections.
 Upload:     3.653 Mbps (  0.457 MBps), using 20 parallel connections.
 RPM:   438



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