Just FYI, I did two tests today, in my Copious Spare Time
The router did exactly what I expected: it vaporized the
bloat-induced delay provided by Rogers.
My previous bloat-induced lag was between 700 and 900
milliseconds under load, and an unimpressive 240 milliseconds when
idle. With a de-bloated router, lag was 40 milliseconds maximum,
whether idle or loaded, and about 30 millisecond minimum, or a
3500 km round-trip, appropriate for the distances to the
measurements points. By comparison, Rodger-Dogers was giving me
lag times more appropriate for a test to Ankara, Turkey.
The tap test was interesting, but less helpful. I connected to
1-909-390-0003, which is an instant-echo server, used to test
voice telephones. If you connect to it and say something, it will
echo it back to you. If you tap on your microphone, it's fairly
easy to get an idea of how much delay there is.
Alas, with and without bufferbloat mitigation, it took about a
second echo back the tap, so it's not the kind of
instantly-obvious success test I'm searching for, to demonstrate
the goodness of CAKE to my grandmother (;-))
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