If I increased my plan from 10 Mbps to 25 Mbps, do you think that’ll make a difference?
Yes, 10Mbps is pretty slow. I’d say the absolute minimum per person would be 10Mbit/s. With 15Mbit/s per person you’re on the safe side. So if you two can afford it, I’d suggest 50Mbit/s.
Congestion would certainly be better. But: if you download stuff, the client tries to maximise the bandwidth it downloads with, and if the router lets it (which it probably does, because it’s a shitty one without proper QoS), you’ll have high ping and/or buffer bloat again.
Try multiple of the tests for buffer bloat to see if you’re affected.
Since increasing costs an extra amount monthly, it might be cheaper to just buy a router that can set priority or limits or something?
Maybe, if you get a proper router with QoS (e.g. an EdgeRouter ER-X, costs around 60€) and a better access point. You can also get combined devices, look at the OpenWRT table of hardware with good specs supported by the current release to get a device which you can get firmware updates for in a few years.
The cheapest option which also works out of the box is probably a TP-Link Archer C7, but you have to watch out to get the v5 hardware revision. There you can easily set a QoS limit.
Set your internet speed as the median determined by several speedtests over the course of 1-2 days with 3 hours apart (so for example make a speedtest without any devices accessing the internet at 9am, 12am, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm) and set “high priority” to 90%, middle priority to 70% and low priority to 50%. If you give both your and your roommate’s gaming devices the “high priority”, both are able to utilise at most 90% of the internet speed but there’s always 10% headroom for the small packets to not be hold back by congestion as much. Other devices like smartphones should get a low or medium priority.
If you can run cables, by any means do that, because cables are always better than wifi.
Cool, I wanted to build something like that forever myself. I’m sad it has a worse usability than alternativeto.net and is written in JavaScript/nodeJS.
Linux is free. How would it get market share?
Not all Linux distributions are free. A market share can also be taken by a product which is free. It’s just a piece of the market.
You don’t count OS market share by the amount of money you spent for an OS (because then, MacOS would be free, since it’s technically given away bundled with Apple hardware) but by the number of installs.
Okay, I meant percentage points 😃