Measuring the quality of Internet access

Mon Jun 13 21:23:08 UTC 2016

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 04:38:52PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2016 22:11:47 +0300, Max Tulyev said:
> > Is it possible in general to measure the quality of Internet access? And
> > if yes - how?
> 
> First, *define* "quality".  Raw bandwidth to a test server?  Raw bandwidth
> to a weighted average of the Alexa Top 100? Does RTT/bufferbloat count?
> What about RTT jitter?

...not to mention the definition of "Internet". Aside from well-known 
filters, see also
https://ripe72.ripe.net/presentations/6-2016-05-23-connectivity.pdf 
and https://ripe72.ripe.net/archives/video/241/

Cheers,

Joe

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