ASUS AX88U causes problems for others using internet if one device continuously do a 100G file txr

[welim]

May I ask anyone can recommend a better Router known for ease of use, high performance with best SQM available to handle the bufferbloat?

 

[rung]

Here's a crazy suggestion, that will probably get laughed at here. Maybe try a VPN service and use VPN Director for that one user to use it exclusively. This could solve the isp throttle problem (they won't know what the data is, so no special rules) and it becomes the VPN provider's problem to limit the bandwidth of the user, not yours. Win-win?

 

[welim]

Thank you Rung but I am afraid I dont know how to setup such. Do you have a reference page or discussion topic which I can refer to?
Also, FlexQOS is behaving like CAKE. If you use FlexQOS, it cut your internet speed by 50%.
This is speedtest by using ASUS build-in test when FlexQOS is disabled and enabled
The download speed almost HALF of it.

Then, I go to https://bufferbloat.libreqos.com/ to do the test where ASUS FlexQOS is enabled vs disabled. The result is same. GradeC

Question: Can we confirm FlexQOS will also downgrade the internet speed by HALF for download but not the upload ?

Best Regards,
WH

 

[rung]

It's just a crazy idea and was hoping for someone to shoot it down. I wouldn't recommend subscribing to a VPN service like NordVPN just to try it out. You can search VPN client discussions on this board to learn more. Usual protocols are either OpenVPN or Wireguard, depending which the provider supports.

 

[welim]

Ok noted. Temporary, I am removing this ASUS AX88U Router and replace with TPLink to try. At least when doing the bufferbloat test using TPLink router, it gives me a C grade. Using ASUS... it is giving me a D or F grade

 

[dave14305]

FlexQOS is behaving like CAKE. If you use FlexQOS, it cut your internet speed by 50%.
This is speedtest by using ASUS build-in test when FlexQOS is disabled and enabled
The download speed almost HALF of it.

Download shaping is only active on the br0 LAN interface, so a speedtest run on the router only goes through the wan interface, so there isn’t a way for Adaptive QoS or FlexQoS to limit download when running the router’s speedtest.

The most likely explanation would be that the router CPU was overloaded during the test, but I wouldn’t expect the upload to hit full speed if that were true.

May I ask anyone can recommend a better Router known for ease of use, high performance with best SQM available to handle the bufferbloat?

I really like the GL.inet MT6000 Flint 2 running regular OpenWrt 24.10 firmware with the original sqm-scripts package.

 

[degrub]

Doesn't enabling Flex or Adaptive disable NAT acceleration ?

 

[dave14305]

Doesn't enabling Flex or Adaptive disable NAT acceleration ?

No, only Traditional QoS, CAKE, or Bandwidth Limiter disable it.