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lynxthecat / cake-autorate

Eliminate the excess latency and jitter terrorizing your 4G, 5G, LTE, Starlink or other variable rate connection!
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A bit confused with installation #313

Closed apa-u closed 1 month ago

apa-u commented 1 month ago

Hi there! I’m trying to follow your installation instructions, but I’m a bit confused. I have OpenWRT installed on my Telstra Arcadyan AW1000, and it already has SQM QoS installed. I’m currently using Cake and Piece of Cake as scripts. The instruction says I need to set it up, but when I read past it, I also need to configure the primary.configure.sh. What worries me is that it might cause conflicts with the values I set on the SQM page in Luci. I’m new to this, so I’d really appreciate your help. I’m primarily using LTE and 5G as my main sources of internet connection, so this setup really suits me. Your expertise is highly valued! Thanks a bunch in advance!

lynxthecat commented 1 month ago

Hey there! The cake-autorate thread on the OpenWrt forum is probably best for this type of question, so feel free to switch over to there:

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cake-w-adaptive-bandwidth/191049

Don't worry about any conflict between SQM values set on LuCi and cake-autorate; the LuCi values only set up the initial values and cake-autorate will override those within less than a second of running (it changes the rate by default up to a maximum of 20 times per second depending on what is happening on your connection).

Yes cake-autorate is very well suited to LTE and 5G (and essential if you want cake to work properly).

I'd recommend collecting data based on 3x speedtests and uploading to that thread and we can go ahead and verify everything is working well and optimize your config for your connection (cake-autorate really should be configured per connection for optimal operation in dependence upon the desired latency/bandwidth profile for the user).