Well on my other routers I set them to 500mbps on both upload and download and I get about +20ms up and down. I could set them even lower and get perfect latency but I would have to manually switch it everytime I want to switch from gaming to needing to download stuff so I can utilize my full speed
no im on the same device
I did the bufferbloat test first and after it finished I opened the speedtest app and did it right after and it gave me full speed
I did it on the website and it gives me my regular speeds and yet when I do any bufferbloat test or am doing a task that sends packets quickly it gives me like no latency
Your waveform results are way below what your SQM setting should be and there's something going on as the result should be indentical. When it's working correctly you will still have decent throughput and you wouldn't need to turn SQM off. Please set SQM back to default. Cake and piece of cake apply and reboot.
Clear browser cache too and run incognito mode.
Yeah. If this was working correctly then your speedtest results should be as low as the waveform results. So obviously something is off.
well with the sft1200 the cpu isnt powerful enough to handle my full speed and give me good latency with sqm so I set it lower so I get less than +5ms down and up but this just automatically adjusts itself which would be awesome to have some sort of package for lower end routers to run
theres a forum on openwrt forums where someone wants sorta the same thing but I'm just trying to understand why my Opal kinda works like that because it's always been this way. even if I reset the router and use a brand new device it still works like that when sqm is enabled
And what have you set download and upload speed to? Pretty sure if should get more than 60 Mbits when enabled.
And how is it even getting 600+ if you have SQM on, are you turning it off? Again, makes zero sense
I have it set to 80mbps download since around 80 is where I get A+ bufferbloat on this little router
I am not touching the settings afterwards. I could provide a video if it helps
I'm going to bow out and leave it for a dev. The settings should be equal on both results so not sure what's going on I'm afraid.
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I don't understand it either but it works which is why I am wondering how it works lol
It's not. That's not how it should be "working" anyway, let's see what anyone else has to say.
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regularly on my other openwrt routers it caps the speed across the board for both a regular speed test and a bufferbloat test. Yet my SFT1200 opal somehow "automatically" adjusts itself when needed conveniently. I have reflashed this router and reset it and tried looking at the packages or trying other methods of setting up SQM and it always works that way which is why I am astonished.
If there was a way to replicate it on other routers I feel like it could be useful for less powerful routers that can't handle sqm at full speed but still want to use it's full speed for other tasks like streaming videos and whatnot
Yea I wanna see what a dev has to say about it because it's confusing
I wonder if it's something baked into the Software GL.iNet provides
I also wonder if anyone else has experienced this or if it occurs on other GL.iNet Routers
I don‘t get the question tbh.
SQM isn't automatic. It is based one values you enter. There is no way to have full speed during downloads and low latency while gaming the same time.
And if the Opal isn't powerful enough for your ISPs speed you should replace it anyway.
Well is there any way to check in logs to see what's going on with my router? I don't know how but it somehow switches from low latency to high mbps
I am certainly thinking of upgrading from it but I kinda wanna understand whats going on with it. I still use it for travel but I've been using it more often to try and figure out what is causing this
No matter what I do it's always like this. Whether I reflash the software. Whether I use a different internet connection like at a cafe or a hotel. It always seems to ignore what values I set and give me low latency for bufferbloat and high mbps on any other speedtests. If I try a different router it doesn't happen and even if I use a different computer or phone to test it I get the same results from the Opal