Reply To: Advice needed on what ASUS router (or other) Continuation of discussion from DSL-AX82U thread. Main points below: So my family have somehow been able to get along ok in a 3 story house with something as simple as…

[David Doran]

Update time.

So I decided to do some experimenting. Amazon had the RT-AX86U Pro on offer for £210. The same price I paid for the DSL-AX82U.

I decided to get it. Instead of the CPU going to ~57% I am currently not seeing a CPU load over 25% with the exact same Cake settings on the Pro. Basically it’s ~50% more efficient. I was satisfied with the DSL-AX82U but I thought to myself if I get even the slowest FTTP package at BT (150Mbps) the DSL-AX82U is going to choke. Now if I run Cake at ~138 Mbps I will not have any CPU limitation issues. No way is the DSL-AX82U shaping that much bandwidth.

Unfortunately the rate limit thing with torrent/blizzard is still there but that does rule out alot of issues in that it’s probably something to do with QoS in general. In fact the non Cake QoS also suffer from this problem (adaptive and traditional) but to a slightly worse extent so I can’t really blame Cake directly. It must be how some limiters are configured.

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