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A Plea to Developers: Traffic Shaping, QoS, & Bufferbloat Handling
As of today (firmware v. 2.1.2.18), the QoS page in the configuration utility remains opaque, with only a Speedtest app available to tell me what my upload & download speeds look like. For me, wi...
Netgear is really slow on software development. Had high expectations about Orbi but really upset now.
Update. I relegated the Orbi & satellite to access point duties and installed a firewall/router box running IPFire. It's doing routing, NAT, DHCP & DNS and, crucially, advanced queue management using fq_codel.
Judging from the speed tests, buffer bloat is no longer a problem. Things are much better - no stuttering watching streaming TV, faster uploads etc.