On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Rich Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > QUESTION #3: How shall we recommend people set their upload/download speeds? > > Although we have already spent a lot of time on the list batting around ways > to think about this, it seems to me that there are only two choices for > recommendations, especially given that most people looking at CeroWrt are in > a “TL;DR” mind set:
What does TL;DR mean? > 1) If you don’t have an accurate sense of your actual link speed (e.g., you > haven’t done a link speed measurement), you should take your provider’s > published specs, knock them down by 15%, and enter those values in the SQM > Basic Settings tab. [Or should they take an additional 15% off that already > reduced value?] 92% on the up, 85% on the down are starting points. > > 2) If you have done measurements of your link speed, you should enter values > that are 95% of each direction’s measured speed. > > Is this the right recommendation? A short rant on the inadaquacy of speedtest and other tests would be nice. Netanalyzr is the closest thing to a good test these days but it requires java and is inaccurate above 20mbit. > > NB: In the Details… section, we can recommend ways to measure current link > speeds, encourage people to make the measurement during quiet times, link to > the “Quick test for Bufferbloat” page, etc. for those who want to dig further. > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel -- Dave Täht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
