> My rural internet connection is 40mbps/sec down in theory — in practice it’s between 25 and 40 depending which second you poll it, and the speed is affected by whether someone is downstairs watching Netflix while I’m upstairs playing a graphics-intensive game.
I’m constantly surprised by how few ISPs have implemented CoDel or CAKE.
While it does not fix actual packet loss, it solves basically everything else: inconsistent speeds due to some packets getting priority, bufferbloat, laggy streaming.
If I could hand people a router that just had an in port and out port and CoDel installed it would solve 90% of the problems. Unfortunately (for us) ISPs have done away with modems and instead gone for modem/router/wifi combo boxes which makes traffic shaping much much more complicated.
I’m constantly surprised by how few ISPs have implemented CoDel or CAKE. While it does not fix actual packet loss, it solves basically everything else: inconsistent speeds due to some packets getting priority, bufferbloat, laggy streaming.
If I could hand people a router that just had an in port and out port and CoDel installed it would solve 90% of the problems. Unfortunately (for us) ISPs have done away with modems and instead gone for modem/router/wifi combo boxes which makes traffic shaping much much more complicated.