PfSense underperforming, high jitter + random packet loss
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w0w
What is strange for me is that with no traffic shaping I get low ping spikes on download and high ping spikes on upload, when enabling any shaping including fq I get low ping spikes on upload but then get high ping spikes on download, see my results in post 3 if you may, I cant understand it
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NaterGator, I did not tested HFSC for a long time, but I can test it also, later this week. Can you provide more settings regarding queues you have used? Did you change any other settings like RED or ECN, priority, queue limit in packets?
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w0w
What is strange for me is that with no traffic shaping I get low ping spikes on download and high ping spikes on upload, when enabling any shaping including fq I get low ping spikes on upload but then get high ping spikes on download, see my results in post 3 if you may, I cant understand it
I have had some similar results, but I am not sure if it's some DSLreports bug or anything else, their server, or other problems, ex. ISP.
You should repeat your tests 10 times at least with traffic shaping and without, to make some conclusions. -
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/27223186 ALTQ HFSC codel enabled queue + ECN, dslreports 24/6 HD enabled
https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/27223235 ALTQ HFSC codel enabled queue + ECN, dslreports 30/30 HD enabled — twice got failed due to overall timeout. error:2
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/27223412 FQ_CODEL againNaterGator did you try to set bandwidth limit for the ALQ shapers more tighten then for FQ_CODEL? I think it can be possible reason for the spikes you've got. The overhead for the ALTQ is slightly bigger so it's possible that it fails on a bandwidth limit. To make sure put the bandwidth to 50% of overall.
I can not explain why dslreports often fails to start with ALTQ CODEL and FQ_CODEL mostly never fails. May be it's by design of DSLreports or ALQ CODEL. :D
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@w0w:
NaterGator did you try to set bandwidth limit for the ALQ shapers more tighten then for FQ_CODEL? I think it can be possible reason for the spikes you've got. The overhead for the ALTQ is slightly bigger so it's possible that it fails on a bandwidth limit. To make sure put the bandwidth to 50% of overall.
Oh yes, I tried some absurdly low limits just to be absolutely positive I had plenty of headroom, for example:
https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest/25228491The insane spikey buffering effect from ALTQ is definitely still there.
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Did you try ECN on ALTQ? It is enabled by default on IPFW FQ_CODEL.
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Yes, I tried with and without ECN.
