While I agree that upload speeds aren't great, it doesn't mean that the buffers aren't big. Buffer sizes of the order of MB's are uncalled for at the edge, unless we're talking really high speeds. The miniscule performance increase for single TCP flows doesn't really justify the potential increase in latency for everyone else.

On 5/30/15 6:25 PM, Steven Tardy wrote:
There's a corollary of the bufferbloat phenomenon: buffer drain time. It's not the size 
of the buffer, but how long it takes to empty. And US ISPs continue to say 
"customers don't want upload speed".
If the ISP upload speed was symmetric you'd likely never notice the 1-2MB of 
buffers.

I guess what I'm getting at is why do you continue to say buffers are too big 
instead of saying ISP upload is too slow?


On May 30, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/578850

I would get a kick out of it if folk here tried this new speedtest
periodically (on the "cable" setting) during the nanog conference. ;)
There is a hires option for more detail on the resulting charts...

(or fiddled with "flent" (flent.org))

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