Simple QoS bandwidth limiting for buffer bloat
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Old Thread, but just wanted to say thanks.
Bufferbloat was rated as F, made the traffic shaping on the LAN & WAN interfaces as suggested and now I'm getting A+
Hopefully that may help with some gaming issues my son has.
Thanks
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I'm on TWC's 50/5 package which, normally speedtest.net and Sam Knows report me having 56Mbps down and 5.8Mbps up (we don't have speed boost here - TWC over provisions).
However, the speed tests to DSLReports are terrible. Only coming in at 10 and 15Mbps.
I'll keep tinkering with the numbers.
DSLReports has very good speedtest servers ran in the major datacenters around the world and accurately reflects what you will see from your ISP, ignoring on-premise or peering your ISP may be doing.
In your case, TWC probably has special routes set up to make sure the speedtests get lots of bandwidth, but then have very poor general routing that causes your DSLReports speedtests to be slow.
I don't know about SameKnows, but speedtest.net is very unreliable and gives inflated numbers. One case that I've seen is I when monitoring pfSense for my bandwidth, I saw it blip to 50Mb/s for a short bit, but then was around 40Mb/s for 95% of the test, yet SpeedTest.net claimed I got 50Mb/s. Another case pfSense and my Windows bandwidth widget claimed I only got a peak of 38Mb/s, yet SpeedTest.net claimed I got 51Mb/s.
DSLReports does something like the median or 20th percentile.
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I'd turn QoS off, and run a dslreports test