Notable Quotes

“FQ_Codel provides great isolation… if you’ve got low-rate videoconferencing and low rate web traffic they never get dropped. A lot of issues with IW10 go away, because all the other traffic sees is the front of the queue. You don’t know how big its window is, but you don’t care because you are not affected by it. FQ_Codel increases utilization across your entire networking fabric, especially for bidirectional traffic. If we’re sticking code into boxes to deploy codel, don’t do that. Deploy fq_codel. It’s just an across the board win.” - Van Jacobson

• I just wanted to toss out a thank you for the work on sqm-scripts. I finally installed it on my router and wow, does it ever help. I get a much more responsive internet connection when my roommate is watching Netflix. Hearing how much bufferbloat affects performance is one thing but actually seeing the difference is pretty amazing. - Eric Schultz, Community Manager, prpl Foundation

• OpenWrt, As of r31759 qos-scripts replaced sfq/red with fq_codel to massively improve latency under load

• Fq-codel really is that much of a silver bullet - on edgerouter 1.7 OS.

• Fq-codel really whips the llama’s ass