Back in October, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ethan Banks on the Packet Pushers podcast.

In it, we talked about the definition of bufferbloat, and how it harms the performance of VoIP, gaming, and general internet use. (It’s the reason our children say, “The internet is slow today, Daddy.”) I also described how the CoDel algorithm, and its fq_codel implementation in Linux makes the problem go away.

The most fun was the CoDel demonstration, which occurs near the end of the podcast. The podcast was recorded over Skype. When I turned on many netperf upload and download sessions to fully load my 7mbps/768kbps DSL link, the quality degraded without fq_codel. But it bounced right back when I re-enabled it.

Listen to the podcast – PQ Show 57 – Improve Your Home Internet Performance Using CoDel