bufferbloat in the fediverse

Haha, my ISP is the type from hell that's never heard of IPv6, let alone QoS. There's no way to get hold of a technical contact as an end user, I've looked — because they don't have any. It's all outsourced to Cisco consultants, even actual line faults take weeks/months to get resolved. You could say their chain of command has a severe bufferbloat problem :)

I have a 16Mbit/830kbit DSL connection which hasn't seen a physical upgrade since the late 2000s. They've *started* building out fibre here where they charge obscene rates for less than a 3× increase *each way* (asymmetric FTTP! what a load of BS!), but in any case it doesn't seem like they have many choke points except the last hop they scalp their customers for. My latency's been consistently low even with this fediverse stuff. At this point I just wish they'd stop starving us of bandwidth…