I gave a talk at nznog about 2 years ago about bufferbloat and the fixes we had planned for it. I'm pleased to say that we've got it mostly fixed in the Linux kernel at this point. did the NZwrt idea ever get traction? In particular, the wifi fixes (fq_codel at the mac layer, and airtime fairness) have today, entered lede (formerly openwrt). There's full support for the ath9k and partial support for some ath10k chips. Builds should be popping out in a few hours. Most of these patches are now in the linux 4.10 mainline - and ATF is scheduled for 4.11. The sqm-scripts (in lede and openwrt, which also work on mainline linuxes) have long enabled fixing dsl, cable, fiber, ethernet - but *are not* required to fix wifi - with these patches, "wifi just works!" with far less bloat and more concurrency. There's a ton of ath9k/ath10k using products out there supported by lede. The Turris Omnia has all the sqm-scripts, fq_codel, and the ath9k/ath10k stuff either in it now, or rapidly pending. There's also some good stuff in the dsl-aware-autoconfig-ing http://evenroute.com/ (but not the wifi stuff as yet). A lot of people are liking the edgerouter-x... ... And there are dozens of other firmwares and products using fq_codel functionality - notably the ubnt edgerouter calls it what it is, but you'll see it also under names like "adaptive qos", and so on. For a good bit of research as to how fq_codel helps on slow connections (in this case, in australia across NBN's speed tiers), see: http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/161107A/CAIA-TR-161107A.pdf for some details what went into fixing wifi, see: https://lwn.net/Articles/705884/ So... Have a bloat-free christmas! fix it for yourself, and then a friend, or two. My testing while I was in NZ last time seemed to indicate no particular tuning was needed for your country, but I remain curious as to what happens when you deploy this new stuff, there - and, if, over the last 2 years, you had been. Wish I was there, myself. Looks nice and warm. -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org