I carry around a gl.inet travel router with our stuff flashed on it. If the conversation veers that way, I do a demo. I have upgraded two out of 6 airbnbs so far. Cost me 30 bucks each. :)
I wish we could improve the airbnb speedtest. I have not tried it in a while, but it did not test for bloat. On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 5:39 AM Rich Brown via Bloat <[email protected]> wrote: > > I stayed in an Airbnb rental last week. It was nicely appointed with a very > gracious host who lived in the other half of the home. They had decent > internet from xfinity - I was getting 20mbps/5mpbs. > > But.. they have bad bufferbloat. I was on a Zoom call and occasionally people > would sound like Darth Vader. I busted out a ping test to 8.8.8.8 and sure > enough, latency spiked from a nominal 10-20 msec to 2500 msec and > occasionally over 4000 msec. > > I had to check out before I had a chance to mention it to the Airbnb host. > And I'll probably leave it alone. But I'm still wondering - if I wanted to > evangelize: > > 1. What would I say? I know I don't want to blurt out, "your network has > bufferbloat". That sounds worse than the cooties :-) I imagine that I'd > mumble something about the Zoom call occasionally sounding like Darth Vader, > and that I'm a network professional and recognize the symptom, and that > there's a technical fix for it. I'd probably pause to see if their eyes lit > up ("Oh, that happens to us all the time...") before proceeding. And then... > > 2. What would I recommend? Obviously, inserting something with cake into the > mix would help a lot. Even if they were willing to let me examine their > entire network (Comcast router, Apple Airport in our Airbnb unit, other > router?) I have no idea what kind of tar baby I would be touching. I don't > want to become their network admin for the rest of time. > > I know Dave Täht recommends that you help your local coffee shop debloat > their network. But that's a place that you develop a personal relationship > and you visit often enough to answer questions during a shake-down period. > And they'll probably "let you in the back" to see what's there. > > Anyone have good ideas about handling this? Or should I give it up?Thanks! > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat -- Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
