Bufferbloat on BRSK connection

Shaolin Chicken

Shaolin Chicken

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Hello everyone,
I am experiencing bufferbloat on my BRSK 150 down/150 up connection and I am hoping you can give some advice.
Should I contact BRSK about this. Will it affect my speeds if I do.
Or would you recommend I spend money on my own router instead of the BRSK supplied router.
Here are my results:- https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=6fe27de2-f857-4ad8-913f-10eabedca0cf
There is only me that uses the connection, so does it really matter that I am getting bufferbloat?

Thank you for reading.
 
Well, good luck, but I doubt you will get very far. If you do then please advise me!
I get the same problem with ZEN Interenet.
My latency increases to over 250ms.
What I do is use Cake and limit the bandwidth of the connection slightly, to keep the latency low at all times. This amounts to keeping the upload and download bandwidth to 90% of the advertised speeds.
 
SpellowHouse said:
Well, good luck, but I doubt you will get very far. If you do then please advise me!
I get the same problem with ZEN Interenet.
My latency increases to over 250ms.
What I do is use Cake and limit the bandwidth of the connection slightly, to keep the latency low at all times. This amounts to keeping the upload and download bandwidth to 90% of the advertised speeds.
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Thanks SpellowHouse, I will look into Cake
edit: Ah, NO good as it doesn't work with my router
 
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I wouldn't be surprised if you contacted support and they didn't even know what you're talking about. They will probably be totally perplexed why someone who is getting the speed they are paying for is complaining.

They won't change anything (if they did then SQM algorithms wouldn't need to exist :P ). All ISP's care about is that the user is getting the speed advertised. What level of latency that comes with is beyond their scope.

If you're the only one using the connection then it's all upto you at the end of the day if it's worth getting a router capable of fixing it.
 
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There's some funniness with bufferbloat tests in my experience. I remember when I first got Community Fibre 1gb symmetrical, and when I had a go a the bufferbloat test, it came up with a A rating in Firefox. It was subsequently found that the tests can be heavily influenced by the browser you test it on when I tried it on Edge browser, and it gave me a C rating. So unless if you have something seriously noticeably wrong that is caused by bufferbloat, I'd pay it no mind really.
 
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