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by richbhanover 1225 days ago
The name "bufferbloat" is falling out of favor. First off, it has a horrible sound... And it doesn't really give an intuitive sense of what's wrong.

Referring to "latency" or (my favorite) "responsiveness" is better.

And I was encouraged to see this recent ZDNet article that mentioned the "ping rates" of 600-1000 msec, and notes that these would cause videoconferencing or gaming to be unusable.

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/i-tried-del...

And as @giuliomagnifico points out, you can fix it yourself if you get the right router.