SQM Makes bufferbloat significantly worse

Thankyou all again. It turns out the number of streams in the test really did seem to be the problem as pointed out by @dlakelan. I reduced the test to three streams and the results started to get much better.

Using SQM with cake, an upstream value of 300 and a downstream value between 2200 and 2400, I can now get a bufferbloat score between A and B (more often A), download speeds of 1.8-2.0 Mbps and upload of 180-220 kbps.

I've also confirmed that I can simultaneously stream video, upload data and still have a responsive SSH session (at least all from the same client), although upload speeds do get slower under these conditions. Which is exactly what I wanted. I still need to test this works with multiple clients connected to the router, but so far very promising.

Thanks again everyone for your help.

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