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Last snapshot on Oct 02 2021 before page was changed: https://web.archive.org/web/20211002154145/https://www.badmodems.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20211002154145/https://www.badmo... The site seems to be focusing on latency/jitter issues: https://web.archive.org/web/20210506114456fw_/https://badmodems.com/Issue3.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20210506114456fw_/https://badmod... I'm not entirely sure what to make of the information presented. The page above includes an embedded video demonstrating a difference between ICMP and TCP load-testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15cJ400yR_E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15cJ400yR_E I'm not knocking that there is interesting data, I'm rather trying to consider potential confounding factors that could call the conclusions being drawn into question. In particular, I have two questions: - This doesn't talk about "bufferbloat" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufferbloat) or internal buffering happening inside the modem, only latency/jitter. I'm honestly completely naive about the relationship between the two concepts, but I thought they had reasonable overlap, and could even potentially go some way to explaining the dynamics of what's going on. Why not? - The video seems to just be TCP- and ICMP-pinging 8.8.8.8. Surely that address is sufficiently hammered that it probably implements fairly aggressive rate control algorithms...?