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Networking scrub here, learning things as I go to try and figure out how to make the internet better at our new place that doesnt have cables so our only real option is the new 5G/LTE modem that T-Mobile sells as Home Internet, this thing has terrible bufferbloat so I looked into using my own router that can circumvent that and got a GT-AC2900(RT-AC86U) with latest version of Merlin to run the built-in Cake.
It didn't occur to me that Cake was for static connections and wouldn't manually adjust itself when bandwidth changes so the moment it does change it would break, Looking around here I saw there was a script for OpenWrt instead that's built for connections like mine called https://github.com/lynxthecat/CAKE-autorate , the dev of this script @Lynx mentioned in another thread here that they could add support for Merlin but if that's not feasible right now I could try to install OpenWrt if possible. But before that I wanted to figure out something else.
When I was messing with Cake set to lower bandwidths to run bufferbloat tests the download packets were fine but the upload packets were still spiking the ping up heavily. I was thinking this was because I don't know how to configure it right but I found someone else's post with a similar issue on this router https://www.snbforums.com/threads/cake-compared-to-openwrt-version.78910/#post-762719 so now I'm concerned it's about hardware too.
If anyone has any guidance, ideas, or if I made any mistakes please let me know, thank you.
It didn't occur to me that Cake was for static connections and wouldn't manually adjust itself when bandwidth changes so the moment it does change it would break, Looking around here I saw there was a script for OpenWrt instead that's built for connections like mine called https://github.com/lynxthecat/CAKE-autorate , the dev of this script @Lynx mentioned in another thread here that they could add support for Merlin but if that's not feasible right now I could try to install OpenWrt if possible. But before that I wanted to figure out something else.
When I was messing with Cake set to lower bandwidths to run bufferbloat tests the download packets were fine but the upload packets were still spiking the ping up heavily. I was thinking this was because I don't know how to configure it right but I found someone else's post with a similar issue on this router https://www.snbforums.com/threads/cake-compared-to-openwrt-version.78910/#post-762719 so now I'm concerned it's about hardware too.
If anyone has any guidance, ideas, or if I made any mistakes please let me know, thank you.