#3 QoS for Bufferbloat has been promised for years by Peplink. In Peplink ticket 20050143, which was originated in May 2020 through the Peplink reseller that we deal with, the download fix was targeted for 8.2.0. Peplink missed that and postponed to 9.0.0 because performance issues were found. Your reseller relayed to us on July 28, 2022 that “Peplink has told us the following about this. This is scheduled for firmware 9.0 which is still a few months away.”
@Alex, are you able to make this happen in 2026? FYI, @wcnetworks, a different reseller, asked on Jan 25, 2026: “any updates on this? i have a bufferbloat issue on a balance 20x”. I responded “My only new thoughts these days are that Peplink should consider re-enabling Mitigate Bufferbloat for Download in the current version. They pulled Download and left only Upload because the CPU usage for Download was excessive. It cut performance about 50%. However, Peplink has far more powerful hardware in the B One than the Surf Soho where this issue surfaced, and many people would find it sufficient. After all, a good percentage of those needing fq_codel have slow internet. And someone with cable internet having Download 10 times the speed of Upload (where fq_codel or Cake is sorely needed), may be willing to have their 1Gbps Download chopped down to 500Mbps (I would).”
Note: Cake, the successor to fq_codel, was recently fixed to work on multiple CPU’s in OpenWRT, and is now capable of running at higher speeds than fq_codel with the proper hardware.