Ending the anomaly: achieving low latency and airtime fairness in WiFi [pdf]

Re:Ending the anomaly: achieving low latency and airtime fai... by jabl on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @06:40AM (#14899325)

Awesome work! It's just too bad ath9k equipped routers are starting to be a bit hard to find..

And since ath9k is the only blob-free driver, prospects for fixing other drivers are not that bright.

Disclaimer: I'm not involved in any of this work myself, the above is my imperfect understanding of the situation. I'm just a happy owner and user of a ath9k router.

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Re:Ending the anomaly: achieving low latency and airtime fai... by Maakuth on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @08:12AM (#14899828)

I think the possibility of fixing existing hardware in bufferbloat project was always limited at best. What can happen, though, is that good research results would find their way to vendors. Then, slowly, the issues would be fixed in new firmware blobs.

edit: typo

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Re:Ending the anomaly: achieving low latency and airtime fai... by pedrocr on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:21AM (#14899536)

I had assumed the situation was better as I've had great results with the TP-Link AC1750 and Openwrt. Everything is well supported and works fast. But that has moved on to the ath10k which is now blob-based like the other drivers so these kinds of fixes are now normal hardware bugs and not something someone can hack independently.

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