Is YouTube faster over IPv6?
A three-year study sought to measure the difference between YouTube content delivery over IPv6 and IPv4 to understand which provides the best user experience.
Tag: measurement
Detecting network outages with RIPE Atlas
Guest Post: A technique to detect bursty TCP disconnections, and how it can be used on RIPE Atlas data to better detect outages in the Internet.
Characterizing IPv6 traffic load balancing
Guest Post: Traffic load balancing is a common solution to bandwidth demands. Using a modified traceroute tool, researchers in Brazil are examining load balancing in IPv6 networks.
Viet Nam, Myanmar join the Asia Pacific RIPE Atlas anchor network
Viet Nam and Myanmar are the latest additions to the growing network of economies hosting APNIC-sponsored RIPE Atlas anchors in the Asia Pacific.
‘Why is the Internet so slow?!’
Guest Post: What’s the source of latency on the Internet, and how can it be reduced?
Open resolvers on IPv6: not as hidden as you think
Guest Post: New research shows that network operators cannot simply rely on the size of the IPv6 address space to hide open DNS resolvers.
Anycast latency: How many sites are enough?
Guest Post: New research studies the relationship between latency and anycast deployment of four Root DNS servers (C, F, K and L) to determine how many anycast sites are required for good latency.
Surabaya joins the RIPE Atlas Anchor network in Indonesia
RIPE Atlas measurement coverage in Indonesia expands with the deployment of an anchor in Surabaya, the economy’s second-largest city.
How to observe allocated IPv6 addresses
Guest Post: By adapting a previous measuring method, we are able to observe how operators allocate IPv6 addresses more easily.
New RIPE Atlas Root Zone DNS Measurements
Guest Post: Two new DNS measurements have been added to every RIPE Atlas probe.