[190720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I recommend dslreports.com/speedtest these days (was
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baldur Norddahl)
Fri Jul 22 16:18:58 2016
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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:18:12 +0200
From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Den 22. jul. 2016 21.34 skrev "Jim Gettys" <jg@freedesktop.org>:
>
>
> So it is entirely appropriate in my view to give even "high speed"
> connections low grades; it's telling you that they suck under load
> =E2=80=8B, like when your kid is downloading a video (or uploading one fo=
r their
> friends); your performance (e.g. web surfing) can go to hell in a
> hand-basket despite having a lot of bandwidth on the
> connection. For most use, I'll take a 20Mbps link without bloat to a
> 200Mbps one with a half second of bloat any
> =E2=80=8B =E2=80=8B
> day.
> =E2=80=8B
I will expect that high speed links will have little bloat simply because
even large buffers empty quite fast.
Regards
Baldur
