Brian May via luv-talk wrote:
Craig Sanders via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> writes:
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 04:55:55PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
My theory is that with a bridged/PPPOE setup I was getting a lot of queuing of outgoing packets, which led to large latencies, and that the routed setup is better. I did try solving this by setting up QOS, but with the speed changing so much this didn't work anymore, and I don't particularly want to have to keep monitoring this.
I never noticed anything like that with my bridged pppoe connection (also using a very old billion modem). I always had good performance. Was getting almost 16 Mbpbs down and 1.1 Mbps up until about a year or so ago when NBN contractors came to prepare the street for NBN (FTTC). They negligently disconnected me twice while doing that (several days outage both times). After that, I never got better than 11 Mbps down. Coincidentally, that was just good enough that I couldn't insist that it be fixed.
This is my router:
https://www.ui.com/edgemax/edgerouter-pro/
I am not sure what its CPU is. I think though it should be able to cope with PPPOE at fast then 3Mbps.
Unfortunately this company doesn't make anything that will terminate a ADSL/VDSL connection. Which is why I need the modem/router.
Just get two separate devices: * a VDSL modem, that you run in bridge mode and never touch again[0]; and * a router that can run OpenWRT well[1]. PPPoE happens on the OpenWRT router, so will Just Work. OpenWRT defaults to codel (self-tuning modern egress QoS), and if your line speed is predictable (e.g. doesn't drop 80% during heavy rain), you can install ... can't remember the name, but *not* the one called "qos", to get modern ingress QoS shaping as well --- you just have to hard-code the line bandwidth still (hence "predictable"). [0] with the possible exception of polling it's SNMP or shitty web interface to collect SNR ratio into collectd for later shouting at the carrier after heavy rain. [1] I use & highly recommend the Linksys (nee Belkin) EA8500, which has badass wifi. See also https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_864 (and narrow the search fields to get a shortlist). PS: Ubiquiti gear is like Apple gear - unless you run its OEM OS, you're paying extra for the fancy OS for no reason. i.e. if you're going to run OpenWRT, Ubiquiti hardware is overpriced.