[Make-wifi-fast] Make-wifi-fast Digest, Vol 26, Issue 2 - Thanks and question on whether the Make-wifi-fast code is in the Ubiquiti wireless implementation.

Wed May 17 20:20:02 EDT 2017

Frits,

The IQrouter actually ships with self-configuring code on top of the LEDE software. It initially checks bandwidth to adjust the SQM parameters, and also seems to check continually, to account for daily/nightly variations that may occur. (I don't have certain knowledge of this, but they've said things that make me think it...)

I absolutely agree that it would be good to have more commercial vendors adopt this technology, so we can seek out different dragons to slay...

Best,

Rich

> On May 14, 2017, at 8:10 PM, Frits Riep <riep at riepnet.com> wrote:
> 
> Rich, I'd like to thank and acknowledge the excellent work done by yourself and all the technical contributors.
> 
> I've been using and benefiting from the good work done on my routers using fq-codel and cake as well, mostly on a TP-Link Archer C7 with OpenWRT and LEDE builds, and that has worked well to control latency on my internet connection.
> 
> I've also been a fan of the Ubiquiti Unifi wireless products and have used them at home and for many small business customers.  I have noted that they have implemented Airtime fairness and that is great.
> 
> Per your note below stating some of the results, in particular I am unclear on "- A few commercial products - notably IQrouter and Ubiquiti - are shipping a good SQM implementation in their products"  I do know that Ubiquiti has implemented SQM in their routers, but I have not used their routers, but I am very interested if the Unifi AP's have implemented any Make-wifi-fast code, because I have not seen any references to that in their release notes or in other sources.  Also, there do not appear to be any settings in their management interface to enable or configure any SQM, fq-codel, or Cake configuration settings, so I would think there is no Make-wifi-fast code in their current or beta wireless implementations.   They do have "Airtime Fairness" and that has been great, but I do not know if that is due to using Make-wifi-fast code, or their own implementation.
> 
> I am interested in any insights you can provide on this, and also in general whether any commercial products have or are planning to implement Make-wifi-fast.    It would be great to see this be implemented in many commercial products so that this ultimately benefits all end-users and becomes a marketing advantage for manufacturers to help spur implementation.
> 
> Thanks,
> Frits 
> 
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>   1. Re: fq_codel is *five* years old today (Rich Brown)
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> Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 08:31:57 -0400
> From: Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com>
> To: "Richard E. Brown" <richb.hanover at gmail.com>
> Cc: bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net>, cerowrt-devel
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> Subject: Re: [Make-wifi-fast] fq_codel is *five* years old today
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> There have been so many improvements in so many ways...
> 
> - Cake is the acknowledged winner in SQM
> 
> - Make Wi-Fi Fast has removed a couple orders of magnitude of latency in the Wi-Fi stack, and Airtime Fairness has eliminated the Wi-Fi Paradox.
> 
> - All this is Implemented in LEDE, so it's available as a (somewhat) straightforward install on hundreds of different kinds of routers. As a side note, LEDE and OpenWrt are working toward a merger, with a unification of the development efforts.
> 
> - A few commercial products - notably IQrouter and Ubiquiti - are shipping a good SQM implementation in their products. 
> 
> Let's all take a moment and revel in solving some of the major annoyances in networking.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Rich
> 
>> On May 14, 2016, at 9:18 AM, Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Another year, further progress toward world domination (or at least, 
>> fixing the world's internet...)
>> 
>> - The team is working furiously on Making Wi-Fi Fast. This has entailed lots of deep research into the behavior of Wi-Fi at low and high loads, airtime fairness, wireless drivers, new hardware platforms for testing. Lots more work ahead.
>> 
>> - We had a huge response (260 signers) to the Save Wi-Fi from the FCC filing re: locking down OTS router firmware.
>> 
>> - We have officially declared the CeroWrt project to be dead. All its interesting facilities have been subsumed into OpenWrt mainline code.
>> 
>> - The OpenWrt project has a fork - LEDE (http://lede-project.org) It remains to be seen what effect this will have on our anti-Bufferbloat effort.
>> 
>> - RIP: the original www.bufferbloat.net server. Hopefully someone can pick up the pieces (even for historical purposes) as we re-deploy the information to a new (non-Redmine) system.
>> 
>> What else happened this year?
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Rich
>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> From: Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: fq_codel is *three* years old today
>>> Date: May 14, 2015 at 8:11:38 AM EDT
>>> To: bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net>, cerowrt-devel 
>>> <cerowrt-devel at lists.bufferbloat.net>
>>> Cc: Justin Beech <justinbeech at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>> Folks,
>>> 
>>> Today is the third anniversary of the announcement of a testable 
>>> fq_codel (see 
>>> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/cerowrt-devel/2014-May/002984
>>> .html et. seq.)
>>> 
>>> Here's (an approximation of) the state of the world:
>>> 
>>> - We didn't know it at the time, but we would be able to declare victory on CeroWrt less than three months later with the 3.10.50-1 build. Not only did that firmware reduce bufferbloat, but it showed that DNSSEC and IPv6 could be implemented in "normal" home routers without any kind of jiggery-pokery. Field reports at the end of 2014 showed that build was very stable - we had lots of reports of 80 day uptimes, and a high of ~140 days.
>>> 
>>> - fq_codel is installed a large and growing of places. It's available off the shelf for OpenWrt in the SQM QoS package, the Linux kernel, IPFire, DD-WRT, and other routers.
>>> 
>>> - "Bufferbloat" is entering the lexicon. People are speaking about it 
>>> in blogs and open literature as a known entity, not some voodoo 
>>> effect that's only a concern to crazy people. The writers don't 
>>> always get the description or symptoms right, but there is an 
>>> acknowledgement that something could be better in your home (and 
>>> everywhere) network connection. (See for example, 
>>> http://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2015/04/measure-your
>>> -bufferbloat-new-browser-based-tool-dslreports )
>>> 
>>> - Speaking of which, the new DSLReports Speed Test has recently 
>>> stirred things up. Not only do we have an attractive tool that we can 
>>> recommend to friends, but people are getting a little hot under the 
>>> collar when they see the crummy performance of the router that they 
>>> just paid dearly for. See, for example, 
>>> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30051856-Connectivity-Buffer-Bloat
>>> 
>>> - Now that we've shown that fq_codel conquers bufferbloat, we're finding further optimizations. There's a lot of effort on cake, which promises to bring higher speed processing, and looking into corner cases that can be improved. 
>>> 
>>> - And of course, Dave Täht is taking on another big project: "Making Wi-Fi Fast".
>>> 
>>> What else has happened in this year?
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Rich
>> 
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