I thought Mikrotik PPPoE queues were always default-small, or is that
because I use RADIUS?
Personally I use RED but I think there are several choices that will work
well, as long as you don't make the queue size too small. (10 packets is
too small, around 50 is good.)
I suspect your users who max out their upstream are just seeing what happens
when you max out your upstream, it will make things seem sluggish even if
there is plenty of downstream left. That's how the Internet works. Not
sure you're doing anything wrong.
BTW, the reason I use RED is that as the queue fills up, the probability of
a packet being dropped increases, hopefully invoking TCP congestion control
to slow the rate of the traffic gracefully. That said, it's probably not a
popular choice.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 10:32 AM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Queue Types
Saw in the ePMP knowledge base that they recommend changing queue type
from default to wireless-default.
In one of my mikrotik pppoe servers I look and see default is pfifo
with 50 packets. Wireless-default is sfq with 5s and 1514bytes.
What would advantages or reason for the change?
I don't user epmp yet but on my PPPoE server I frequently have
complaints from users that have there upstream maxed out by one thing
or another complain about there connection. I wander if switching to
sfq might help there? Or it might simply max my Mikrotik CPUs out.
