I'd wondered about single vs. multiple, but I'm getting pretty consistent speeds from the flent-fremont node irrespective of the number of streams that I use (1, 4, 12, etc).
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:50 AM, Colin Dearborn <colin.dearb...@sjrb.ca> wrote: > This is my guess. > > DSL reports uses many streams from different servers to achieve these > speeds. > > I’m assuming flent is a single stream, so you’re at the mercy of TCP > receive windows and latency limiting how fast you can go on that single > stream. > > > > *From:* Bloat [mailto:bloat-boun...@lists.bufferbloat.net] *On Behalf Of > *Aaron > Wood > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:16 PM > *To:* bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net> > *Subject:* [Bloat] different speeds on different ports? (benchmarking fun) > > > > I don't have a full writeup yet, but wanted to ask if people on here have > run into this. > > > > I'm seeing a disparity between flent and the dslreports speed tests. On > my connection at home (Comcast 150/12), I figured it was something related > to the test implementations, but minor. But on a connect at a friend with > business-class Comcast (300/12), we're seeing a huge difference. Flent > can't seem to achieve more than 120Mbps, often with an early, couple-second > hump at a much higher speed. But dslreports' speed tests gets the full > 300Mbps. > > > > In looking closer at my connection, with sqm (cake) turned off, I'm seeing > ~180Mbps download with 500ms of bufferbloat when I use the dslreports test ( > http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/20805152). > > > > Yet flent can't come close to that, even with the tcp_12down test: > > > > > The current hypothesis that we have is that this is due to either traffic > class, or the ports that traffic are running on. I've ruled out the ping > streams, as a parallel set of netperf tcp_maerts downloads has the same > 120Mbps roof. > > > > It would be interesting if we could run some netperf tests using port > 80/443 for the listening socket for the data connection (although if doing > deep-packet inspection, we might need to use an actual HTTP transfer). > > > > -Aaron >
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