I can assure you, it's making a real difference for our customers. On the "WISP Talk" facebook group dozens of small ISPs like ours regularly report the improvements fq_codel has had on their networks and customer retention (Preseem, Sensei).

In our case, most of our customers recently switched to us from the incumbent telco - a major company with higher bandwidth offerings but also high pricing.

We mostly use 802.11ac PtMP radios, which should mean lots of latency spikes and odd performance in such a noisy 5GHz environment.

Fq_codel has really stabilized performance of our links, and qdisc stats have been able to help us to track down problematic connections before the customer knows anything is wrong.

Amazingly, nearly every one of our subscribers describes having a more stable video conferencing experience than with the incumbent - since we added fq_codel.

It offers small ISPs like ours a unique competitive advantage, while also alleviating headaches for many families who were having performance issues on other providers at the start of the pandemic when everything switched to video conferencing.

I'm very sorry about the dinghy. I can imagine that's stressful so I hope you're able to find a good replacement ASAP.

I'm going to post about LibreQoS on some ISP forums I frequent and see if we can't get some modest contributions to the patreon.

A good deal of us small ISP operators owe a great deal to linux traffic control and all these related open source projects for keeping us going against the big guys.

Your work has put bloat and network performance in the spotlight and helped bring many disparate devs and stakeholders together to make linux tc work well.

Given how many ISPs pay $5000+/yr for proprietary wrappers for htb+fq_codel, I am hopeful they'll see the value in supporting long term advances in linux networking, and contribute back!

As someone who makes music on linux myself (bitwig mostly, which connects to JACK) I am very excited to mess with JackTrip. How neat! Also thank you for familiarizing me with Galene - I had always hoped more webrtc related p2p video platforms would take off and I'm going to keep an eye on it. Everyone could benefit from p2p and decentralization there, plus us ISPs would stop getting yelled at when Zoom servers go down haha.

I will check the ecn mark vs drop stats tomorrow and see what they are at.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:26 PM Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you robert, but way more than dozens of folk were and remain more involved
in the effort. For starters Jim Gettys fired it all up, and like him,
I'm mostly retreated to
the sidelines, working on other things. Perhaps in 2021, with a new
administration
and FCC chair, and so many families stuck at home... will be the year
the average user will finally get gear that does more of the right
things, especially for videoconferencing, by default, led by the
smaller ISPs in competitive markets.

I've never figured out how to get the message "more out"; we ran a funding drive
once that got more PR. Half the donations I take from
https://www.patreon.com/dtaht go to keeping the flent servers alive
and the other half buys top ramen. I just lost my
dinghy in a windstorm and can't even get "home" at the moment, and one of
my big frustrations from the harbor vantage point whenever I manage to
get back...

is having to run cake in front of my cell phone in order to make it
behave... and another is to see all the very poor offloads from major
manufacturers that claim an SQM implementation that doesn't actually
work....

But all grousing aside:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for open sourcing a set of tools that help
out a smaller ISP. We're all in this bloat together, and by sharing
code and ideas
we can make for a faster, more reliable, better internet, for everyone.

I am quite behind on reading the bloat list, and this thread made my day.

thx

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 9:59 AM Robert Chacon
<robert.chacon@jackrabbitwireless.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new here, my name is Robert. I operate a small ISP in the US. I wanted to post here to thank Dave Täht, as well as the dozens of contributors to the fq_codel and cake projects.
>
> I created a simple python application that uses htb+fq_codel to shape my customers' traffic, and have seen great performance improvements. I am maintaining it as an open source project for other ISPs to use at https://github.com/rchac/LibreQoS
>
> Mostly I just wanted to thank Dave and everyone else here for working to make fq_codel and cake possible. These are hugely helpful projects that have helped improve our network, and thousands of other networks around the world. Looking at discussions from fellow ISPs who use Preseem and Sensei, which use fq_codel, small ISP networks across the world are hugely benefiting from fq_codel. They are now able to retain customers who would have otherwise been lost - thanks to fq_codel and the many optimizations you all made possible. I hope more ISPs are able to deploy fq_codel and/or cake using our tool or commercial applications like Preseem and Sensei. Amid COVID, fq_codel is really important for keeping work-from-home and remote learning connectivity stable. Thank you all!
>
> Thanks,
> Robert Chacon
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