>>> But it's DOCSIS 3.1, so why isn't PIE working?  Theory:  It's in DOCSIS 3.0
>>> upstream mode based on the status LEDs.  Hopefully it will go away if I can
>>> convince it to run in DOCSIS 3.1 mode.
>>
>> I think that while PIE is "mandatory to implement" in DOCSIS 3.1, the
>> ISP still has to turn it on? So maybe yelling at them will work? (ha!)

I've chatted with someone about it, and they seemed to think it's suspicious, but I'm not going to push it further until I have modem showing that it's in DOCSIS 3.1 for upstream.

I do need to see if I can sort out what the SB8200's status messages are:

CM-STATUS message sent. Event Type Code: 24; Chan ID: 48; DSID: N/A; MAC Addr: N/A; OFDM/OFDMA Profile ID: 2 3.;CM-MAC=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;CMTS-MAC=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;CM-QOS=1.1;CM-VER=3.1;
 
>>> At the moment, however, my WRT1900AC isn't up to the task of dealing with
>>> these sorts of downstream rates.
>>>
>>> So I'm looking at the apu2, which from this post:
>>> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/comparative-throughput-testing-including-nat-sqm-wireguard-and-openvpn/44724
>>>
>>> Will certainly get most of the way there.
>>
>> My Turris Omnia is doing fine on my 1Gbps connection (although that
>> hardly suffers from bloat, so I'm not doing any shaping; did try it
>> though, and it has no problem with running CAKE at 1Gbps).
>
>       Well, doing local network flent RRUL stress tests indicated that
>       my omnia (at that time with TOS4/Openwrt18) only allowed up to
>       500/500 Mbps shaping with bi directionally saturating traffic
>       with full MTU-sized packets. So I undirectional CAKE at 1Gbps
>       can work, but under full load, I did not manage that, what did I
>       wrong?

Hmm, not sure I've actually done full bidirectional shaping. And trying
it now, it does seem to be struggling...

That's definitely an option for me, as I don't have to worry about a 2Gbps total traffic, only about 1.03Gbps (since cable is so asymmetric).

But I'm also not sure I want to go with another ARM box.  The small x64 boxes are looking like a much better long-term option.