things to test

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>]

I've been pondering what aspects of a residential broadband connection 
that would be worthwhile in testing, which would also be some kind of 
incentive for ISPs to start doing "better".

Some things that comes to mind:

speed
latency to some points geographically near the user
MTU of the connection
If PMTUD works or not
queueing (FIFO or something "better")
antispoofing (BCP38) compliance
filtering (IPv6 transition protocols for instance, lots more possible)
buffer depth ingress/egress
ECN
ISP provided DNS resolver properties (DNSSEC, EDNS etc)

I'm sure there are lots more, and this could probably not be done using a 
web browser driven application, but instead would have to be an 
application, thus harder to get people to use generally.

Any work being done in this area already that someone can point to? I'd 
also like to use some of this tech to do "web server tests", especially 
when it comes to PMTUD working, especially when for a IPv6 world it would 
be nice to have an easily available testing suite for these basic 
mechanisms.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se