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Can you expand on the QoS setup you’re using? I’ve recently read about the fq_codel addition to Pfsense and wondering if anyone here has been using that.

I’m also looking for more performance related tunes as well. To that end, I’ve configured Cloudflares DNS but not sure what else yields results. It sounds like squid caching is mostly useless due to most traffic being HTTPS.

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It's actually a pretty simple queue-based setup right now. My primary intent was to ensure that bulk downloads and uploads don't interfere with my latency while gaming.

I did look into fq_codel but I don't believe that was a practical option on PfSense back when I was setting everything up. I might have to revisit that now that it has native support in PfSense 2.4.4.

fq_codel is working pretty well for me to keep my ping consistent with big downloads going. There are some straightforward tutorials out there now too, since pfSense has native support.

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