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Orb Blog
Company blog · orb.net/blog · on HN as jamiessystemsdata
Orb Blog is the company blog at orb.net, writing about systems and data. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Orb”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post arguing for a larger TCP initial congestion window. The one comment discusses ISP rate limiting and buffer queue depth and does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Understand your Internet Experience. A new platform from the creators of Speedtest & Downdetector.
Most-linked posts?
- Orb2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-02
What Hacker News says?
Rate limiting the CPE doesn't seem to really impact the buffer queue depth on the 100G upstream switch feeding the 1G customer port. In addition, sticking them on something like 90% customer speed plan or 90% port speed also doesn't help, and in fact with many customers, they are now pissed because they never hit their plan speeds in a speed test. Something I have always done I actually provision to account for pack…
Comment linking /
on “An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024)”Submitted Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck? as a story · 277 points
HN discussionSubmitted Orb as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Orb: The platform and team built to measure internet experience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the "ping" command doesn't always reflect your internet experience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why lag matters more for connectivity than throughput as a story · 1 points
HN discussion