I recently switched from tomato to openwrt, mainly because of SQM. I'm using the CAKE qdisc with impressive results, However I'm having to manually set the download speeds in the evening. Is there something I haven't come across yet to automatically adjust to an optimal speed based on the line or time of day?
For the moment I'm thinking the best option is to schedule a change around the time everyone gets home and it slows down. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
The line itself isn't bad during non-peak hours, and the upstream seems consistent, but the downstream can go down to somewhere in the 1.5-2mbit range especially on weekend nights. This has become a problem for VOIP, games, and anything else which requires low latency.
I'm sure Ill figure out something, and if it comes down to it, Ill be happy to figure out a way to make this happen... but if there's already a solution for this, I would much rather spend my time doing other things
I have heard good things about the 'IQ router', but I'm not gonna pay for that overpriced garbage when openwrt can do the same thing with some scripting
*edit* Should I just use a ping watchdog to ping a reliable server, and adjust the bandwidth for SQM every time the ping hits over a set number? I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about this, but its the only thing I can think of to keep the latency consistent.
It kind of baffles me that this hasn't been done before, but I can't find any info on what I'm trying to do to address this problem. I can think of many friends and neighbors, as well as quite a few people online who could use something that does this. Why did Adtran ever make the TA1248 anyway!? Did someone at Adtran actually think 12mbit would be enough for 48 clients?