QoS Help

[RADDY1993]

Guys i have a Asus RT-AC66U running Asuswrt-Merlin firmware 380.62_alpha1-g96b6837 and its running great. I am trying to set up QoS so i get less BufferBloat as i am a PS4 gamer, i currently have my download set to 97% and upload set to70%, i ran speedtest.net to get my speeds. I get A, A C on DSLreports which i know is good but is there any way i can improve this to maybe get A+. Also us there any other tweaks i can make in my settings to help improve on my connection. I am on Sky Fibre using a Huawei HG612 Openreach Modem and the mentioned above router, my speeds are 40/10 but i get around 30 down and 9 up.

 

[Trip]

Rather than trying to play with just class-ordered shaping in Merlin, I'd add-in a better queuing algorythm, either in substitute, or on top of your shapers -- namely fq_codel (google it). If you can live without certain Merlin features (if any), I'd put AdvancedTomato on there, choose "fq_codel" as your qdisc in the QoS section, fill in upload/download speeds, specify any manual class shapers you want, and you're good to go. That should get you the "A" status you're looking for. WAN-LAN throughput in Tomato will be lower than Merlin, as you lose Broadcom's hardware-accelerated cut-through-forwarding, but you'll still be able to move 50 Mb/s aggregate easily, so nothing to worry about there.

As far as bandwidth utilization goes, a good majority of QoS is going to yield slightly lower WAN throughput than the quoted maximums, but the trade-off is often worth it as long as you're getting the desired effect(s) on the traffic.

 

[RADDY1993]

Rather than trying to play with just class-ordered shaping in Merlin, I'd add-in a better queuing algorythm, either in substitute, or on top of your shapers -- namely fq_codel (google it). If you can live without certain Merlin features (if any), I'd put AdvancedTomato on there, choose "fq_codel" as your qdisc in the QoS section, fill in upload/download speeds, specify any manual class shapers you want, and you're good to go. That should get you the "A" status you're looking for. WAN-LAN throughput in Tomato will be lower than Merlin, as you lose Broadcom's hardware-accelerated cut-through-forwarding, but you'll still be able to move 50 Mb/s aggregate easily, so nothing to worry about there.

As far as bandwidth utilization goes, a good majority of QoS is going to yield slightly lower WAN throughput than the quoted maximums, but the trade-off is often worth it as long as you're getting the desired effect(s) on the traffic.

Thanx for the reply, i did try Tomato Shibby but could net get it to connect to internet as im on sky so as you know they use Mer. I have my username and password but am not experienced enough to figure out how to connect.

 

[abailey]

I use Untangle for a firewall and it has some pretty advanced QOS features but I have never gotten better than A, A, C on DSLReports. Is A+ possible on that site?

 

[RADDY1993]

I use Untangle for a firewall and it has some pretty advanced QOS features but I have never gotten better than A, A, C on DSLReports. Is A+ possible on that site?

Yes i can get an A+ on Quality and sometimes i had A+ on Bufferbloat but just not consistent. I have now tried AdvancedTomato, Shibby Tomato and DD-WRT and am now back on Merlin as i get best results and better speeds with it. I get 28,55 down and 9.11 up so i set up at 85% and down at 95% and get A A C.