mtr and job done

In a similar fashion, do not let yourself distracted by any impressive monitoring frameworks or charts researchers may be using. Matt's traceroute ("mtr") is almost always good enough to very accurately pinpoint any bufferbloat currently destroying your latency. Sometimes iperf/netperf is not even required; downloading some DVD image is enough. The main problem is not technical but going through first level and second level support. Support stories seldom make it to the ACM/IEEE though.

Science is useful and makes great reads for rainy weekends but, when push comes to shove use simpler engineering to do the job.