Is there anything I can do to reduce bufferbloat on a separate AP from my openWRT router>?

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@rayrockiii

Problem is the wireless devices have awful bufferbloat ranging from F to C.

Have a go changing the AQL settings for your wireless PHY's? It improved things for me.

But yeah wireless is a shared half duplex medium. You will have contention issues.

Examples below for people using it for gl-mt6000. I've done it on ath9k/ath10k and mt76.

https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt6000#adjusting_aql

GL.iNet GL-MT6000 - AQL and WiFi Latency

Update 05/28/2024: Created a script to allow one to easily update the aql_txq_limit: Update 05/14/2024: @tohojo Provides a great explanation of these settings here: Original Thread: This thread is intended to be a GL.iNet GL-MT6000 specific continuation of the E8450/RT3200 thread I kicked off here, some time ago. I'm kicking off this topic specifically for discussion around AQL and other wireless latency points. This is not meant to be another topic for discussing SQM on the ethernet…