It's a software issue, but many routers are sold as appliances where the average user does not choose what OS to run. Therefore, a common recommended solution t

It's a software issue, but many routers are sold as appliances where the average user does not choose what OS to run. Therefore, a common recommended solution to bufferbloat is to replace the router with one whose software has more modern buffer management algorithms. OpenWRT, for example, can be flashed on many older routers and will be able to solve bufferbloat without replacing the hardware.