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For the last 4 years or so I've been running a home-built router on an off-lease Dell pizza box PC ($90 from Ebay at the time) with an extra NIC, running IPFire. At the time, this was one of the few home distros that was fairly easy to set up and supported FQ_Codel. My home connection is a Spectrum account that's massively asynchronous - 400 Mbit down and 10 up. Bufferbloat is BAD without FQ - speed tests give my connection an F for BB, and you can see it in twitch gaming with terrible latencies popping up. IPFire with FQ enabled and set just under the upload and download caps completely solved the problem.
Rather embarrassingly, I've lost/forgotten the admin PW for my IPFire installation, and it's nearly a year out of date with updates. Testament to how stable it is. I was going to just re-install the latest version since that only takes 15 minutes or so and there's nothing particularly complex to re-create, but I thought I'd see if there are any simpler hardware routers that support FQ. It can be wired only or wireless, though I've already got a couple of Asus RT-66U's in access point mode and I don't really need a third one where the cable modem is located. I don't mind paying for quality, and we should have gigabit download options available in this neighborhood soon, so I don't want to compromise too much in terms of throughput. This 7 year old PC is massive overkill as is - I think it's an I5 with 8 GB, but I haven't had to worry about not having enough horsepower to run QoS. When I could remember the PW and checked the reports, utilization of proc and memory was nearly nil.
The box is getting old, though, and it's also obviously pretty power-hungry for just running a simple router. Is there an option for a commercial router that can run fair queuing? I tried searching for routers that run FQ_Codel but my google-fu is failing me. I don't need fancy QoS for voice services or such - I just need enough traffic shaping to eliminate bufferbloat. I'll just re-install IPFire if not, but given how important having the home network available at all times during the day has been lately I'd like to look at something solid-state.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Rather embarrassingly, I've lost/forgotten the admin PW for my IPFire installation, and it's nearly a year out of date with updates. Testament to how stable it is. I was going to just re-install the latest version since that only takes 15 minutes or so and there's nothing particularly complex to re-create, but I thought I'd see if there are any simpler hardware routers that support FQ. It can be wired only or wireless, though I've already got a couple of Asus RT-66U's in access point mode and I don't really need a third one where the cable modem is located. I don't mind paying for quality, and we should have gigabit download options available in this neighborhood soon, so I don't want to compromise too much in terms of throughput. This 7 year old PC is massive overkill as is - I think it's an I5 with 8 GB, but I haven't had to worry about not having enough horsepower to run QoS. When I could remember the PW and checked the reports, utilization of proc and memory was nearly nil.
The box is getting old, though, and it's also obviously pretty power-hungry for just running a simple router. Is there an option for a commercial router that can run fair queuing? I tried searching for routers that run FQ_Codel but my google-fu is failing me. I don't need fancy QoS for voice services or such - I just need enough traffic shaping to eliminate bufferbloat. I'll just re-install IPFire if not, but given how important having the home network available at all times during the day has been lately I'd like to look at something solid-state.
Thanks for any suggestions!