There’s a dreaded disease that’s plagued Internet Service Providers for years. OK, there’s probably several diseases, but today we’re talking about bufferbloat. What it is, how to test for it, and ...

In 2010, Jim Gettys, a veteran computer programmer who currently works at Google, was at home uploading a large file to his work server. His kids came into his study and said, “Daddy, the Internet is ...

While lots of people are worried, rightly, about running out of IPv4 addresses, Netizens have other problems to worry about. Like, for example, Bufferbloat — a key contributor to congestion/latency ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sometimes it seems strange that a problem can develop and go undetected, even under watchful eyes ...

Bufferbloats—an amusing word for a less-than-delightful issue (we reported on these last year). A bufferbloat is the proliferation of more and more buffering of IP packets in routers, switches, modems ...