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I see that Giulio here has attained an A+ buffer bloat rating for his or her home network. I've tried this in the past with limited success, mostly because I do

I see that Giulio here has attained an A+ buffer bloat rating for his or her home network. I've tried this in the past with limited success, mostly because I don't want to introduce another failure point (dedicated router, separate from wireless access point) to my network. Am I being silly? I'm concerned about what could happen if there's a failure when I'm not home to maintain everything, since I'm the only person who can or wants to work with this equipment. I'd love to reduce my buffer bloat to improve the quality of my my video and audio calls. But I'm not sure it's worth it. Or if the results in this post demonstrate an average use case with a crappy ISP.

kkielhofner 4y ago
If your router+ap supports OpenWRT you can reflash and have best of breed QoS up and running in a few clicks via the Luci web interface that IMO is vastly superior to the goofy web UIs that come on SOHO routers. Bonus is OpenWRT also seems to be much more stable than manufacturer hardware as long as your hardware is well supported. Plus you don't have to worry about your manufacturer no longer supporting firmware on your model and OpenWRT is much faster to respond to the occasional security issue, etc. OpenWRT has gotten some flak over the years by leaving devices behind when they no longer have enough flash and/or RAM. That said OpenWRT is likely going to support your hardware longer than the manufacturer will.
- dont__panic 4y ago
  I have a router similar to the router in the linked post, and OpenWRT was a mess on there. Turns out that my router was saddled with a crappy processor downgrade at some point after initial release, and I got one of the crap CPUs. OpenWRT didn't even support the CPU by default, and when I managed to get OpenWRT on there, I had serious QoS problems because the CPU wasn't up to snuff. I liked OpenWRT a lot but it was a really frustrating experience.
  - EricE 4y ago
    to be fair, the real problem was the crappy hardware you tried to run it on - not OpenWRT :p
giuliomagnifico 4y ago
There’re lots of variables, like tour internet speed, your hardware, etc.. OpenWrt is great at managing bufferbloat, and a router + AP is not a +1 point of failure, if you consider that I can switch or turn off the AP but I can leave the home internet online. Anyway I leave alone but With a VPN you can manage your home LAN from everywhere. I’ve done a similar setup for my parents, when they call me saying “we don’t have internet” I can simply check what’s going on, I wrote a post here: http://giuliomagnifico.blog/networking/2022/07/21/setting-up-network-parents.html http://giuliomagnifico.blog/networking/2022/07/21/setting-up...
- master_crab 4y ago
  Not sure if it's mentioned in the webpage but the biggest possible issue with this WG setup is if the ISP's DHCP changes your endpoint IP (or worse, the ISP double NATs their customers).
  - giuliomagnifico 4y ago
    I’m using DDNS to retrieve the IP every time it changes, it’s mentioned in the article. I set the IP endpoint to xyz.duckdns.org not to the IP

kkielhofner 4y ago

If your router+ap supports OpenWRT you can reflash and have best of breed QoS up and running in a few clicks via the Luci web interface that IMO is vastly superior to the goofy web UIs that come on SOHO routers. Bonus is OpenWRT also seems to be much more stable than manufacturer hardware as long as your hardware is well supported. Plus you don't have to worry about your manufacturer no longer supporting firmware on your model and OpenWRT is much faster to respond to the occasional security issue, etc. OpenWRT has gotten some flak over the years by leaving devices behind when they no longer have enough flash and/or RAM. That said OpenWRT is likely going to support your hardware longer than the manufacturer will.

dont__panic 4y ago
I have a router similar to the router in the linked post, and OpenWRT was a mess on there. Turns out that my router was saddled with a crappy processor downgrade at some point after initial release, and I got one of the crap CPUs. OpenWRT didn't even support the CPU by default, and when I managed to get OpenWRT on there, I had serious QoS problems because the CPU wasn't up to snuff. I liked OpenWRT a lot but it was a really frustrating experience.
- EricE 4y ago
  to be fair, the real problem was the crappy hardware you tried to run it on - not OpenWRT :p

giuliomagnifico 4y ago

There’re lots of variables, like tour internet speed, your hardware, etc.. OpenWrt is great at managing bufferbloat, and a router + AP is not a +1 point of failure, if you consider that I can switch or turn off the AP but I can leave the home internet online. Anyway I leave alone but With a VPN you can manage your home LAN from everywhere. I’ve done a similar setup for my parents, when they call me saying “we don’t have internet” I can simply check what’s going on, I wrote a post here: http://giuliomagnifico.blog/networking/2022/07/21/setting-up-network-parents.html http://giuliomagnifico.blog/networking/2022/07/21/setting-up...

master_crab 4y ago
Not sure if it's mentioned in the webpage but the biggest possible issue with this WG setup is if the ISP's DHCP changes your endpoint IP (or worse, the ISP double NATs their customers).
- giuliomagnifico 4y ago
  I’m using DDNS to retrieve the IP every time it changes, it’s mentioned in the article. I set the IP endpoint to xyz.duckdns.org not to the IP