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About Waveform Bufferbloat Test
The Waveform Bufferbloat Test is a web page that measures the speed of your internet connection and checks for bufferbloat, where latency climbs when the line is busy with downloads or uploads. It runs in the browser without installing anything.
Bufferbloat causes lag in games and video calls even on fast connections, so the test is useful before and after changing router queue settings. The test is hosted by Waveform, a company that sells cellular antennas and equipment.
Strengths
- Measures latency under load, not only raw speed
- Runs in the browser with nothing to install
- Useful for checking router queue settings
Limitations
- Hosted on a retailer's site
- Tests only the connection from the device running it
Details
- Pricing
- FreeThe test runs in the browser at no cost.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Waveform
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Finding out whether a busy connection causes lag in games and calls
- Categories
- Network tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Waveform Bufferbloat Test
Compare allSoftware that can replace Waveform Bufferbloat Test for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Cloudflare Speed Test
A browser-based internet speed test that measures throughput, latency, jitter and packet loss.
Cloudflare Speed Test also runs in the browser and reports jitter, packet loss and loaded latency, but sends your IP to Cloudflare.
FAST.com
A minimal browser speed test that estimates your download speed in a few seconds.
FAST.com shows loaded and unloaded latency on request, but hides it by default and measures no jitter or packet loss.
Speedtest by Ookla
An internet speed test for measuring download, upload and latency in the browser or apps.
Speedtest by Ookla adds apps and result history for download, upload and latency, with less focus on latency under load.
M-Lab Speed Test
A browser speed test from Measurement Lab that publishes its measurement data openly.
M-Lab Speed Test reports retransmission and publishes open data, but retains and publishes your IP address with results.
nPerf
Internet speed test measuring download, upload and latency, in the browser and as apps.
nPerf measures download, upload and latency in the browser and in apps, adding streaming and browsing tests on desktop, against its own servers.
LibreSpeed
Self-hostable speed test with no Flash, Java or Websocket.
LibreSpeed is an open-source, self-hosted speed test, so results measure the path to your own server rather than a hosted service.
Flent
Network benchmarking tool that runs repeatable tests with netperf and iperf and plots the results.
Flent runs repeatable latency-under-load experiments with plots on Linux, but needs netperf or iperf and a test server at the other end.
Waveform Bufferbloat Test as an alternative
Listings that name Waveform Bufferbloat Test as an alternative.
OpenSpeedTest
HTML5 speed test that can be self-hosted from a Docker image.
Waveform Bufferbloat Test adds latency-under-load measurement in the browser, but it is a hosted closed service on a retailer's site rather than self-hosted.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
gping
Ping with a live graph, so you can see latency spikes and packet loss instead of reading a column of numbers.
PingPlotter
Visualizes latency and packet loss hop-by-hop to find where a connection breaks down.
iPerf3
Measures how fast a network link really is between two machines you control, which a speed test cannot.
