Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread jb
It is a whole lot better than other ISPs. 55% are As and Bs including Cs (which by the standard of most ISPs, is still decent) take the total to 90% .. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Aaron Wood wrote: > Huh, those results are rather different from mine when I had free.fr: > > > http://burntch

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Aaron Wood
Huh, those results are rather different from mine when I had free.fr: http://burntchrome.blogspot.com/2014/01/bufferbloat-or-lack-thereof-on-freefr.html -Aaron On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > 63% F bloat grade for > http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/isp/r3895-Orang

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Rick Jones
On 06/05/2015 05:32 PM, jb wrote: It's supposed to be GPRS but the graph library is not cooperating for a reason that I can't work out at the moment. Just a guess - doesn't like having something go past the left edge perhaps? You could try swapping positions with G3 and see if that makes thi

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread jb
It's supposed to be GPRS but the graph library is not cooperating for a reason that I can't work out at the moment. > Interesting stuff. What is that label to the left of "3G" meant to be? It seems to show-up in the column charts for all countries. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Rick Jones wr

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
Feature requests: (in your copious spare time) A) be able to break the bloat grade out up and down. as one example free.fr has limited control on the down (their IPtv implementation makes it impossible to fix), but total control on the up, and I figured that they would do better than they did on u

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread jb
Dave Those result pages I pushed out this week, and they are are a work in progress I expect to be adding more depth to them, stay tuned. Unrelated to buffer bloat results, there is a global speed map available too: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/country With click features for co

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
63% F bloat grade for http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/isp/r3895-Orange%20Broadband I was disappointed to see the numbers for free, but wish I had insight into up vs down for their bloat scores. http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/results/isp/r2816-Free%20France but... so wonderful to

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Adrian Kennard wrote: > On 05/06/2015 18:57, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant wrote: >> It was the uplink side and the recent adoption of Zyxel kit which >> made me wonder out loud to AA-Andrew earlier today regarding A&A >> bufferbloat experiences/testing on that side of t

Re: [Bloat] FQ-PIE kernel module implementation

2015-06-05 Thread Simon Barber
Very cool. Does this mean that Cisco are not planning on enforcing any IP rights over PIE? Simon On 6/4/2015 3:06 PM, Hironori Okano -X (hokano - AAP3 INC at Cisco) wrote: Hi all, I’m Hironori Okano and Fred’s intern. I’d like to let you know that I have implemented FQ-PIE as a linux kernel

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Adrian Kennard
On 05/06/2015 18:57, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant wrote: > It was the uplink side and the recent adoption of Zyxel kit which > made me wonder out loud to AA-Andrew earlier today regarding A&A > bufferbloat experiences/testing on that side of things with the new > modems. You're an ISP that would have s

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
On 05/06/2015 18:51, Adrian Kennard wrote: > On 05/06/2015 18:48, Dave Taht wrote: >> So I am curious as to how well A&A's AS20712 (?) clients are doing on >> the new dslreports.com/speedtest, which shows the "bloat" grade and >> actual behavior over time? > As I say, we try not to be a factor in b

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Adrian Kennard
On 05/06/2015 18:48, Dave Taht wrote: > So I am curious as to how well A&A's AS20712 (?) clients are doing on > the new dslreports.com/speedtest, which shows the "bloat" grade and > actual behavior over time? As I say, we try not to be a factor in buffering, so would be interesting to see. I suspe

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Adrian Kennard
On 05/06/2015 18:23, Dave Taht wrote: >>> A&A struck me as an extremely clueful ISP (I think they have had ipv6 >>> /48s for forever?) >>> and it has been my impression that folk like that were using things >>> like HFSC + SFQ already >>> in their "rate limiters", and had experimented also with fq_

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Adrian Kennard
On 05/06/2015 18:23, Dave Taht wrote: >> Adrian Kennard the owner writes code for their ISP grade routers etc >> (Firebricks). Very clever chap. And yes very early adopters and promoters >> of IPv6. No idea what qdiscs etc they've experimented with. I'll try to >> ask. Would be interesting

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Adrian Kennard wrote: > On 05/06/2015 18:23, Dave Taht wrote: A&A struck me as an extremely clueful ISP (I think they have had ipv6 /48s for forever?) and it has been my impression that folk like that were using things like HFSC + SFQ already >>

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
On 05/06/2015 18:27, Adrian Kennard wrote: > On 05/06/2015 18:23, Dave Taht wrote: in their "rate limiters", and had experimented also with fq_codel by now. > Oh, I meant to say, the policers used on broadband links have a very > very simple logic of small packets (<1000) are allowed more pred

Re: [Bloat] Remarkably simple bloat managing use by a UK ISP

2015-06-05 Thread Sebastian Moeller
Hi Dave, hi LIst, On Jun 5, 2015, at 18:46 , Dave Taht wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote: >> Going back to fundamentals, there's a clear distinction between traffic >> which is latency sensitive and traffic which is bandwidth sensitive. Perhaps >> surprisingly, web

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant wrote: > On 05/06/2015 17:19, Dave Taht wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant >> wrote: >>> >>> On 04/06/15 21:01, Jonathan Morton wrote: >>> >>> A useful exercise might be to log the idle latency over a long per

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
On 05/06/2015 17:19, Dave Taht wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant > wrote: >> >> On 04/06/15 21:01, Jonathan Morton wrote: >> >> A useful exercise might be to log the idle latency over a long period of >> time, and correlate it to peak load periods, as A&A do. >> http

Re: [Bloat] Remarkably simple bloat managing use by a UK ISP

2015-06-05 Thread Jonathan Morton
> I do not regard ping promotion as a "feature". Neither do I, but in this case at least ping isn't getting an unfair advantage over other latency sensitive traffic. Measurements based on ping therefore correctly show a big improvement over doing nothing. Fq_codel also naturally promotes pings an

Re: [Bloat] Remarkably simple bloat managing use by a UK ISP

2015-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > Going back to fundamentals, there's a clear distinction between traffic > which is latency sensitive and traffic which is bandwidth sensitive. Perhaps > surprisingly, web traffic tends to fall into the former category, unless the > link band

Re: [Bloat] Remarkably simple bloat managing use by a UK ISP

2015-06-05 Thread Jonathan Morton
Going back to fundamentals, there's a clear distinction between traffic which is latency sensitive and traffic which is bandwidth sensitive. Perhaps surprisingly, web traffic tends to fall into the former category, unless the link bandwidth is very low by current standards (analogue modem territory

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant wrote: > > > On 04/06/15 21:01, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > A useful exercise might be to log the idle latency over a long period of > time, and correlate it to peak load periods, as A&A do. > http://aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-cqm.html . > > Minor

Re: [Bloat] Remarkably simple bloat managing use by a UK ISP

2015-06-05 Thread Dave Taht
Yes, making a distinction between large and small packet sizes helps. There is a clear bifurcation in network traffic at around 300 bytes, with all kinds of packet sizes below 300, with very few packets sized in the 300-1100 byte range. webrtc and hangout traffic tends to about 1000 bytes for some

[Bloat] Remarkably simple bloat managing use by a UK ISP

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
Hi Chaps, I was speaking with Andrews & Arnold (a UK clueful ISP) about their experiences with bufferbloat and was sent this graph: https://support.aa.net.uk/VMG1312:_QoS I was surprised at how such a simple 'priority by packet size' scheme appears to work. Clearly there's slightly more goi

Re: [Bloat] Bloat goes away, but with ~25% speed loss?

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant
On 04/06/15 21:01, Jonathan Morton wrote: A useful exercise might be to log the idle latency over a long period of time, and correlate it to peak load periods, as A&A do. http://aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-cqm.html . Minor claim to 'infamy'. The line graph shown on that page is my ADSL line f