On 2015-5-18, at 23:48, Rich Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Last Saturday, I heard a piece on CBC Radio's Spark program about the CIRA in > Canada and their effort to map out network performance in order to get better > Internet service for everyone across Canada. You can listen to the piece at: > http://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/286-empathy-games-intangible-art-and-more-1.3073000/test-your-internet-performance-crowdsource-too-1.3073048
Similar service out of Finland: http://www.netradar.org/ Lars > > I went to their site http://cira.ca/performance and it seemed pretty good. > There were a *ton* of juicy measurements from the TCP stack when you click > the Advance results button. But - you guessed it - no latency measurements. > > So I sent them a note and within an hour (on a Saturday!) I got a note back > from a real human. (Apparently, they've just rolled out the service, so > they're working hard to be responsive to all comers.) > > I gave them the whole story about bufferbloat, and how valuable it would be > to have those latency measurements. The initial reaction (on a Saturday) was > sincere interest but no promises because they were just rolling out the > service. > > It turns out that CIRA is using M-LAB for their test infrastructure. When I > first looked, that project seemed dormant on Google Code - not updated > recently. However, they just moved NDT to github > (https://github.com/ndt-project/ndt) a couple weeks ago. And on > http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/ndt they mention a websockets (non-Java) > version of the web test page. So perhaps there's hope for yet another good > test suite. > > I sent my note to the generic [email protected]. If a couple more people sent > notes of encouragement, perhaps they'll move it up in their queue. > > And does anyone know about Measurement Labs? How might we cajole them into > adding a bufferbloat/latency test? > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
