What's the bufferbloat verdict on https://speed.cloudflare.com/ ?
Mat > On 1 May 2020, at 20:48, Sebastian Moeller <moell...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > well, it was a free service and it lasted a long time. I want to raise a > toast to Justin and convey my sincere thanks for years of investing into the > "good" of the internet. > > Now, the question is which test is going to be the rightful successor? > > Short of running netperf/irtt/iper2/iperf3 on a hosted server, I see lots of > potential but none of the tests are really there yet (grievances in now > particular order): > > OOKLA: speedtest.net. > Pros: ubiquitious, allows selection of single flow versus multi-flow > test, allows server selection > Cons: only IPv4, only static unloaded RTT measurement, no control over > measurement duration > BUFFERBLOAT verdict: incomplete, maybe usable as load generator > > > NETFLIX: fast.com. > Pros: allows selection of upload testing, supposedly decent back-end, > duration configurable > allows unloaded, loaded download and loaded upload RTT > measurements (but reports sinlge numbers for loaded and unloaded RTT, that > are not the max) > Cons: RTT report as two numbers one for the loaded and one for unloaded > RTT, time-course of RTTs missing > BUFFERBLOAT verdict: incomplete, but oh, so close... > > > NPERF: nperf.com > Pros: allows server selection, RTT measurement and report as time > course, also reports average rates and static RTT/jitter for Up- and Download > Cons: RTT measurement for unloaded only, reported RTT static only , no > control over measurement duration > BUFFERBLOAT verdict: incomplete, > > > THINKBROADBAND: www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest > Pros: IPv6, reports coarse RTT time courses for all three measurement > phases > Cons: only static unloaded RTT report in final results, time courses > only visible immediately after testing, no control over measurement duration > BUFFERBLOAT verdict: a bit coarse, might work for users within a > reasonable distance to the UK for acute de-bloating sessions (history > reporting is bad though) > > > honorable mentioning: > BREITBANDMESSUNG: breitbandmessung.de > Pros: query of contracted internet access speed before measurement, > with a scheduler that will only start a test when the backend has sufficient > capacity to saturate the user-supplied contracted rates, IPv6 (happy-eyeballs) > Cons: only static unloaded RTT measurement, no control over measurement > duration > BUFFERBLOAT verdict: unsuitable, exceot as load generator, but the > bandwidth reservation feature is quite nice. > > Best Regards > Sebastian > > >> On May 1, 2020, at 18:44, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/gbd6g0/dsl_reports_speed_test_no_longer_free/ >> >> They ran out of bandwidth. >> >> Message to users here: >> >> http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest >> >> >> -- >> Make Music, Not War >> >> Dave Täht >> CTO, TekLibre, LLC >> http://www.teklibre.com >> Tel: 1-831-435-0729 >> _______________________________________________ >> Cake mailing list >> c...@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cake > > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > bl...@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
