Spoiler alert: BBRv2 is slower than BBRv1 but that’s a good thing. BBRv1 Congestion Control Three years have passed since “Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip” (BBR) congestion control was released. Nowadays, it is considered production-ready and added to Linux, FreeBSD, and Chrome (as part of QUIC.) In our blogpost from 2017, “Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency,” we evaluated BBRv1 congestion control on our edge network and it showed awesome results: Since then, BBRv1 h...