Detect Fair Queuing on an internet connection

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2 pointsmuxamilian2 comments

Using the server and client scripts, one can check whether there's fair queuing at the bottleneck of a connection.

To my knowledge, this is the first measurement that can check for fair queuing.

Not sure why one would want this?

It could answer the question "am i being throttled" but then haw do we work out where? combine this with traceroute logic and hit the intermediate routers?

I kinda suspect TCP/UDP streams may give different results too, especially across the wilderness of ISPs between real people.

Some context: I know that my bottleneck link is my cable modem. Couldn't find documentation on whether it has fair queuing (like fq_codel). So I wrote this measurement tool.

It's not about net neutrality if you understood it that way.

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