Redflame Posted July 5 Posted July 5 Hello, I ran an R3 from late 2025 to May 2026 on a 900/120 Openreach UK PPPoE line and got excellent results (A+ bufferbloat, only +0-2 ms added latency). Before that I was on a C grade with constant lag. A disabled family member who had two small strokes moved downstairs into a hospital bed for safety. Previous renovations that included knocking down walls and adding ceiling beams etc, caused WiFi coverage became poor on the far side of the house. The R3 was the only router that could reach part of the room with a weak but workable signal. We tried a TP-Link WiFi extender, but it didn’t work well with their streaming setup. So we move towards eero mesh. Because I didn’t have safe desk space to run the full ISP router → R3 → Eero chain, I replaced both the ISP router and the R3 with a full Eero mesh (Eero gateway + Eero 6 nodes). This solved the coverage problem, but has re-introduced noticeable bufferbloat and latency spikes during gaming, even with eero’s SQM enabled. My family member is getting their own extension with dedicated FTTP line soon, so this setup is temporary. I’m planning to go back to the R3 for its much better latency performance. Since I no longer have an ISP router, I need a replacement PPPoE router to sit in front of the R3 without bottlenecking it. Any recommendations or advice? (previous router was fritzbox). Thanks
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted July 6 Administrators Posted July 6 We don't have any specific recommendations for a router to use in this setup but any should work just fine in that scenario! Redflame 1
Redflame Posted yesterday at 04:39 PM Author Posted yesterday at 04:39 PM Thanks. I’ve manage to get back onto my R3. My mother still had Fritzbox in storage so it’s my edge device now. For testing CC - is it best to go onto waveform bufferbloat test move down from 95 and down 10 percent and then up by 5 percent? My ping optimiser is telling me my ping 99-100ms is stable even though my London ping is usually 8-12, this sounds like it may be picking up wrong info? If I do test ping option instead of optimise it does show 8-9ms.
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted 10 hours ago Administrators Posted 10 hours ago Yeah that bufferbloat test or using PingPlotter with those reductions in percentage is a good way to fine tune it. Don't use the in built test, depending on the available servers/where they are in relation to you they can provide abnormal results. Redflame 1
Redflame Posted 3 hours ago Author Posted 3 hours ago Thanks for response. So I did that. I found 75 added no bloat, going up to 80 then offer same result. So 85 and up seems to be bloat city. So for download I stuck on 80. If I had 85 down and 95 up my download values and jitter was below 1ms. If it lower my upload lower, my download ping values increase and jitter could hit 6-15ms. So it seems strongly shaped can add more impact to download. Do you think this is just noise or can capping upload on fttp cause issues?
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