https://community.plus.net/t5/My-Router/Bufferbloat-with-DrayTek-how-to-configure/m-p/1918223#M35184 <P><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm using Plusnet with a Draytek 2865 router.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>On my old Netgear D7000 router everything seemed okay re: bufferbloat, but now with the Draytek, things are different.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Speeds on the speedtest website are fine and the same as before (60+Mbps and 18Mbps upload), but the upload latency figures are very high.&nbsp;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Whenever I use Google Drive to upload files, the internet grinds to a halt. Limiting the speeds in the Google Drive app doesn't seem to do anything.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone with a similar router have any advice to help me configure this one please? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I tried to follow guides but not much has changed. I tried to limit the bandwidth in the router settings but that didn't help either. Not sure why!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.</SPAN></P> Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:48:15 GMT vs2023 2023-04-21T11:48:15Z https://community.plus.net/t5/My-Router/Bufferbloat-with-DrayTek-how-to-configure/m-p/1918223#M35184 <P><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm using Plusnet with a Draytek 2865 router.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>On my old Netgear D7000 router everything seemed okay re: bufferbloat, but now with the Draytek, things are different.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Speeds on the speedtest website are fine and the same as before (60+Mbps and 18Mbps upload), but the upload latency figures are very high.&nbsp;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Whenever I use Google Drive to upload files, the internet grinds to a halt. Limiting the speeds in the Google Drive app doesn't seem to do anything.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone with a similar router have any advice to help me configure this one please? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I tried to follow guides but not much has changed. I tried to limit the bandwidth in the router settings but that didn't help either. Not sure why!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.</SPAN></P> Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:48:15 GMT https://community.plus.net/t5/My-Router/Bufferbloat-with-DrayTek-how-to-configure/m-p/1918223#M35184 vs2023 2023-04-21T11:48:15Z https://community.plus.net/t5/My-Router/Bufferbloat-with-DrayTek-how-to-configure/m-p/1918961#M35208 <P>Firstly I suspect the problem is uplink saturation.</P> <P>As a very rough opinion what does&nbsp;<A href="http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest" target="_blank">http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest</A> say for bufferbloat?</P> <P>I get "B" which may or may not be good for a Draytek 2860 and 51Mb/s down 19Mb/s up on Plusnet.</P> <P>A faster FTTP connection will give "A" with the same router.&nbsp;</P> <P>As for the specific question, as Google does everything via the browser it won't be easy to identify the Google Drive traffic and rate limit it.</P> <P>Draytek have a guide to Quality of Service setup:&nbsp;<A href="https://www.draytek.co.uk/support/guides/kb-qos" target="_blank">Quality of Service setup guide (draytek.co.uk)</A></P> <P>If you are after protecting some internet for other devices you could reserve an IP address for the computer then rate limit that local address.</P> <P>It was to prevent uplink saturation that got me to buy my first Draytek router when I had ADSL. It wasn't entirely successful but I got some crude controls that stopped the internet dieing when OneDrive decided to have a sync.</P> <P>Have a play, even if you don't get a full fix you will learn a bit.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:14:12 GMT https://community.plus.net/t5/My-Router/Bufferbloat-with-DrayTek-how-to-configure/m-p/1918961#M35208 markhawkin 2023-04-26T18:14:12Z