ok I got it working now, are tbb planning to remove the single threaded tests? I hope not as they very useful.

Edited by Chrysalis (Mon 04-May-15 19:39:16)

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

now I am really confused can you please provide a direct url to the tbb test?

It's the one on the orange button on the main site- but you have to be logged out (of the main site) or you'll get the standard Flash-based test.

The new one uses HTML5.


edit- it's the same link either way, it just takes you to one of two different places.

Edited by billford (Mon 04-May-15 19:45:53)

So can an ISP fix bufferbloat at their end of is it purely down to the users router if the problem occurs or not?

Important you set the lower advised P8 MTU in your router settings if you are suffering.

Edited by professor973 (Sun 07-Jun-15 22:27:50)

To be honest i rarely max out my connection so dont suffer that much. MTU is set to 1458 i think or whatever the Pulse8 activation email said

Edited by bobble_bob (Mon 08-Jun-15 07:01:04)

To the best of my knowledge, if a user's router suffers from bufferbloat then the only thing their ISP can do about it is to replace it with one that doesn't.

But I could be wrong.

Per user traffic management might help

Probably cheaper to send them a decent router

In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

To be honest i rarely max out my connection so dont suffer that much. MTU is set to 1458 i think or whatever the Pulse8 activation email said

I wonder if that's a hang-over from the issue with BT Wholesale several years ago. I'm not aware of any ADSL network that cannot run at 1492 MTU these days (including TalkTalk, who officially recommend 1432).

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by bobble_bob:

To be honest i rarely max out my connection so dont suffer that much. MTU is set to 1458 i think or whatever the Pulse8 activation email said

I wonder if that's a hang-over from the issue with BT Wholesale several years ago. I'm not aware of any ADSL network that cannot run at 1492 MTU these days (including TalkTalk, who officially recommend 1432).

Many use the PPP extensions to run at 1500 now as well, I can on PlusNet and did on BT both on FTTC.