A smart router that automatically minimizes bufferbloat at all times:
Easy to deploy smart router that automatically adapts to your line
Ongoing metrics and adjustments to handle varying capacity lines
Traffic management ensures fairness and low latencies for all
The plug-and-play fix for bufferbloat
The IQrouter is the recommended solution for lines that suffer from Bufferbloat, enabling you to have low latency results at all times. Simple to deploy, it can be setup by anyone, it automatically profiles the line, setting all necessary parameters on its own.
Customers love it:
Only $99 when purchased direct
Also available in a Pro version for high-speed lines and heavy workload scenarios.
“5 out of 5 stars - Works great, solved my buffer bloat. The router helped clear up my buffer bloat. I can have netflix, facetime, and a steam game downloading, and still play with low ping.”
“5 out of 5 stars - FANTASTIC!
This router does everything it promises. My internet is much more stable and reliable. I did have line issues and this router gave me the details I needed to get my ISP to fix it. Absolutely the best installation software I have EVER used in 30 plus years of computing.”
“5 out of 5 stars - Fixes bufferbloat as promised
Works great, no complaints. No longer have drastic differences in speeds on different devices”
“Bye bye bufferbloat! My previous router showed a score of: Overall (C) Bufferbloat (F) and Quality (D) on DSLReports.com but after installing the IQrouter my scores are all (A+) and the lag spikes on my end have vanished. 5 stars and highly recommended.”
What is Bufferbloat
Bufferbloat is the undesirable latency that comes from upstream network equipment buffering too much data. This added latency is often at the root of many network issues, and occurs when all the capacity of a given connection is consumed and the buffers overfill, causing delays.
This happens frequently with most consumer routers since they have ignored the issues around latency and focused on achieving the highest ‘speed’ or capacity metrics possible at the expense of all else. This turns out to be a bad choice for the end users, as latency has a huge impact on today’s highly interactive Internet traffic, including online games, which are very sensitive to ‘Lag’ (i.e. latencies).
As many households increase the number of devices that connect to the Internet, and many of these devices perform data exchanges in the background, such as synching photos to cloud services, this added, and often not clearly detectable traffic can consume all capacity and impact use of time-critical applications like Skype (and other VoIP apps) by exposing them to high latencies from the bufferbloat.
Fixing Bufferbloat
The fix for bufferbloat is simple: don’t push more data through than the real, current capacity of the line can handle. That way buffers don’t overfill and data can flow smoothly with minimal delays.
Sounds simple, but how to achieve this? First, it requires a traffic management algorithm that will shape the traffic flows to the selected settings. Second, getting those settings right is critical, as it must match the ‘current capacity of the line’ at the time the line is being used. So that means we must measure and monitor the line capacity and adjust settings as needed to always maintain the lowest latencies possible.
Thankfully, there is a commercially available router that provides all of this and more, right out of the box, with a super-simple setup process that non-technical people describe as easy to use. The IQrouter was designed for average people and has a minimum of controls, as it automates all the aspects of measuring and adjusting the traffic management so bufferbloat is minimized at all times. It is effective on all kinds of lines, cable, fiber, VDSL, DSL, StarLink, 5G Wireless, and uniquely effective on lines that vary their capacity over the day. Yes, believe it or not, plenty of ISPs have lines like that. And because line quality is critical, the IQrouter also tracks many line characteristics and presents them in a helpful Dashboard that customers can use to win arguments with the ISP around topics like outages, or excessive data loss.
IQrouter is one of the first routers to also apply latency-reduction techniques to the WiFi connections as well, as latencies can build up when pushing WiFi range limits.
You can check your bufflerbloat with this test at Waveform, If you get anything other than an A, you should get the highly reviewed IQrouter to achieve usable, Quality Internet.