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Re:BBR, the new kid on the TCP block by throwasehasdwi on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:31PM (#14342886)
Yes. CoDel/AQM can only help bufferbloat if you control the bottleneck. However it's possible to artificially make your router the bottleneck if you get really steady bandwidth.

BBR only helps TCP but will help prevent bufferbloat along the whole path

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