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Bufferbloat on variable bandwidth (mobile LTE/5G)
Is there any development ongoing for handling bufferbloat with variable bandwidths?
For a lot of volks LTE/5G is the only option for their internet access and therefore have to deal with variable bandwidth. In my case the download bandwidth varies from 30 to 130 Mbit/s (Download) 30 to 45 Mbit/s (Upload) which makes every algorithm with fixed bandwith unuseable, if you do not want to go with the minimum of 30 Mbit/s.
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Berry @.***> writes:
Is there any development ongoing for handling bufferbloat with variable bandwidths?
The IQrouter has an implementation of a dynamic bandwidth monitor that tunes CAKE. I am not aware of any open source solutions for this, sadly...
More generally however, so long as the interface presents a "line" rate with minimal buffering to fq_codel, it works, even if it is wildly variable.
So, fq_codel for wifi, does that. But ethernet with hw flow control, or anything that can use bql or aql (which 4g/5g can do) would just work...
IF fq_codel + aql were running directly on the 4g/5g device driver.
I note that I gave up. I just use the presented minimum, because I like my phone calls and videocoferencing to always just work.