There have been so many improvements in so many ways... - Cake is the acknowledged winner in SQM
- Make Wi-Fi Fast has removed a couple orders of magnitude of latency in the Wi-Fi stack, and Airtime Fairness has eliminated the Wi-Fi Paradox. - All this is Implemented in LEDE, so it's available as a (somewhat) straightforward install on hundreds of different kinds of routers. As a side note, LEDE and OpenWrt are working toward a merger, with a unification of the development efforts. - A few commercial products - notably IQrouter and Ubiquiti - are shipping a good SQM implementation in their products. Let's all take a moment and revel in solving some of the major annoyances in networking. Best regards, Rich > On May 14, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Rich Brown <richb.hano...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another year, further progress toward world domination (or at least, fixing > the world's internet...) > > - The team is working furiously on Making Wi-Fi Fast. This has entailed lots > of deep research into the behavior of Wi-Fi at low and high loads, airtime > fairness, wireless drivers, new hardware platforms for testing. Lots more > work ahead. > > - We had a huge response (260 signers) to the Save Wi-Fi from the FCC filing > re: locking down OTS router firmware. > > - We have officially declared the CeroWrt project to be dead. All its > interesting facilities have been subsumed into OpenWrt mainline code. > > - The OpenWrt project has a fork - LEDE (http://lede-project.org) It remains > to be seen what effect this will have on our anti-Bufferbloat effort. > > - RIP: the original www.bufferbloat.net server. Hopefully someone can pick up > the pieces (even for historical purposes) as we re-deploy the information to > a new (non-Redmine) system. > > What else happened this year? > > Best regards, > > Rich > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Rich Brown <richb.hano...@gmail.com> >> Subject: fq_codel is *three* years old today >> Date: May 14, 2015 at 8:11:38 AM EDT >> To: bloat <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net>, cerowrt-devel >> <cerowrt-de...@lists.bufferbloat.net> >> Cc: Justin Beech <justinbe...@gmail.com> >> >> Folks, >> >> Today is the third anniversary of the announcement of a testable fq_codel >> (see >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/2014-May/002984.html >> et. seq.) >> >> Here's (an approximation of) the state of the world: >> >> - We didn't know it at the time, but we would be able to declare victory on >> CeroWrt less than three months later with the 3.10.50-1 build. Not only did >> that firmware reduce bufferbloat, but it showed that DNSSEC and IPv6 could >> be implemented in "normal" home routers without any kind of jiggery-pokery. >> Field reports at the end of 2014 showed that build was very stable - we had >> lots of reports of 80 day uptimes, and a high of ~140 days. >> >> - fq_codel is installed a large and growing of places. It's available off >> the shelf for OpenWrt in the SQM QoS package, the Linux kernel, IPFire, >> DD-WRT, and other routers. >> >> - "Bufferbloat" is entering the lexicon. People are speaking about it in >> blogs and open literature as a known entity, not some voodoo effect that's >> only a concern to crazy people. The writers don't always get the description >> or symptoms right, but there is an acknowledgement that something could be >> better in your home (and everywhere) network connection. (See for example, >> http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2015/04/measure-your-bufferbloat-new-browser-based-tool-dslreports >> ) >> >> - Speaking of which, the new DSLReports Speed Test has recently stirred >> things up. Not only do we have an attractive tool that we can recommend to >> friends, but people are getting a little hot under the collar when they see >> the crummy performance of the router that they just paid dearly for. See, >> for example, >> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30051856-Connectivity-Buffer-Bloat >> >> - Now that we've shown that fq_codel conquers bufferbloat, we're finding >> further optimizations. There's a lot of effort on cake, which promises to >> bring higher speed processing, and looking into corner cases that can be >> improved. >> >> - And of course, Dave Täht is taking on another big project: "Making Wi-Fi >> Fast". >> >> What else has happened in this year? >> >> Best, >> >> Rich > _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
