Over the past few weeks I've been trying out the different types of Traffic Shaping (QoS) in pfsense and so far I have not found exactly what I want.
The best I have done so far is with PRIQ. The other options (HFSC, CBQ, etc.) want to dedicate portions of the bandwidth to the different queues.
What I really want is to have the full pipe (upload and download) available and traffic prioritized. If there is only one user/device/connection using the network then that user/device/connection should have the fill pipe available.
With no traffic shaping enabled I can get around 940Mbit/s download on one of the wired LAN machines when nobody else is active. With PRIQ it tops out at around 200Mbit/s...
canutethegreat:
I found a new configuration that seems to work better. Use HFSC, go through the wizard but don't check any of the boxes. Once the wizard is finished go look at the qLink on the LAN side and enable "Codel Active Queue" (do this for all LAN-facing interfaces) and the on WAN look at qDefault and also enable "Codel Active Queue" there as well.
canutethegreat:
With this new configuration, if nobody else is on the 'net I can hit the > 900Mbit/s speed test.