The state of fq_codel and cake in 2022

  • I'm super happy to see fq_codel and cake in actual consumer/prosumer hardware now - I've gone from needing a fairly power hungry x86 box as my home router to cope with 1000/115 + pppoe + cake to being able to use a much lower power mikrotik rb5009.

    Having cake on the upstream means I can push containers, send horribly large backups with multiple TCP streams, etc - all without choking meeting calls - it really makes the internet so much better to use when you do more than one thing at once.

  • Using fq_codel on ubnt edge router x and it is working really good ! Thanks for all people are involved.

  • Given that VPP is ~10x faster than Linux routing, it may be the only path to good performance on low-end SoCs.