[Bloat] Re: Consumer CPE with Modern AQM?

David Collier-Brown
2026-02-16T20:10:24Z

A less expensive alternative for ISPs is LibreQOS, rather than new
end-user devices.
And yet, I think the home router folks are really missing the boat!

--dave

On 2/16/26 12:45, Daniel Sterling wrote:
> I mean no disrespect, but surely large ISPs should be pushing their
> CPE vendors for this functionality? I don't know what the general
> community (represented on this list) might be able to do to help here
> --
>
> or are you hinting that someone should start a company / release a
> product with good SQM support? :)
>
> I for one (as a home user) would be glad to buy some hardware that
> advertised support for cake (and IPv6) -- right now I just run a linux
> box plugged into my PON ONT (spoofing the MAC address of the ISP's
> CPE, so I can fully bypass it). but getting IPv6 working properly was
> a huge pain and I'm afeared to upgrade the linux version lest I break
> it
>
> -- Dan
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 11:51 AM Livingood, Jason via Bloat
> <bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
>> Any recent news on home router CPE that supports fq_codel or cake, etc.? I see a lot of end users on our network that would benefit from this but do not want to run/manage OpenWrt.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jason
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