Boomerang JS Not Including BW Results in Beacon - boomerang

I'm using boomerang to measure perceived client side loading statistics. This works, but the Bandwidth and Latency plugin never sends it's results. I can see it running in the console logs, but the beacon fires before it has even completed.
How can I get it to wait for the BW plugin to complete and include it's results in the beacon?
My Config:
BOOMR.init({
beacon_url: "http://localhost/xxx/assets",
BW: {
base_url: "http://localhost/xxx/assets/images/",
}
});

This is a new feature, but it turns out it could also be a bug. Please post this on the boomerang issue tracker at https://github.com/lognormal/boomerang/issues so we can track it and post a fix.
I'll respond there as well as link to any commits that fix the issue.

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Edited: For those who think this is due to the limitation of 6 connections- please go through https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=234779
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There is something about this that puts Chrome in a tizzy and it starts getting into an eternal pending loop for any HTTP requests after the first pending - even unrelated HTTP requests
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setting up an XMLHttpRequest wrapper that makes the call in async mode and raises a callback in Silverlight on completion
using HttpClient or WebClient
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I hope you already solved your issue, but maybe this will be helpful to whomever may come across this post.

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