I take your point regarding Quality but both your examples in the post show A+ quality?
I'm thinking that packet loss significant enough to show as a "C" or worse is mostly a bad situation even if avoiding all packet loss - by using huge buffers - is definitely a disaster.. On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Brandon Applegate <bran...@burn.net> wrote: >> >>> On Apr 5, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone know what the "quality" portion of dslreport's metric means? >> >> Basically - packet loss. >> >> https://www.dslreports.com/faq/17930 > > Sigh. I ranted. I might rant harder. > > http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/bufferbloat_vs_quality/ > >> >> — >> Quality Grades >> >> Quality refers to average detected packet loss / re-transmit percentages >> during download phase. The higher the packet loss / re-transmit percentage >> the more inefficient the connection is, and a very poor result may be >> indicative of congestion, inside wiring issues or other problems that need >> addressing. >> >> 1% or less - A+ >> 2.5% or less - A >> 3% or less - B >> 5% or less - C >> 12% or less - D >> over 12% - F >> — >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bloat mailing list >> Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat >> > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
