Cake VS LibreQoS

Compare Cake vs LibreQoS and see what are their differences.

LibreQoS

A Quality of Experience and Smart Queue Management system for ISPs. Leverage CAKE to improve network responsiveness, enforce bandwidth plans, and reduce bufferbloat. (by LibreQoE)
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Cake LibreQoS
13 28
3,818 366
0.9% 4.4%
8.2 9.3
9 days ago 2 days ago
C# HTML
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Cake

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-04.

LibreQoS

Posts with mentions or reviews of LibreQoS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-25.
  • LibreQoS – Fast, Flexible QoE for Smart ISPs
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
  • New FCC standards should consider latency
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Feb 2024
    Sorry, I think you are thinking of something else. Maybe a railroad crossing (:-))

    Joking aside, the https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat test looks to see if the networking software is working correctly by putting a large load on the network, and then seeing if other streams are affectec by the overload.

    The example on the https://libreqos.io/ home page is of

  • TCP's congestion control saved the internet
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2023
    fq_codel was successfully offloaded in a few products, however, no offload here, just a xeon with a ton of cores and a big L3. On the libreqos case we leveraged some ebpf to do packet steering in what we call the heimdal bridge, and also kathie nichol´s wonderful passive ping concept: https://github.com/thebracket/cpumap-pping

    src here: https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS/

    You can get a transparent high speed bridge with shaping capability up pretty rapidly with supported hardware.

    I still long for an ethernet card that can do a trie lookup natively! The flamegraphs are mostly getting the right packet to the right cpu, still.

  • SpaceX no longer taking losses to produce Starlink satellite antennas
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Sep 2023
    That's doable. The HOA doesn't sell internet. Just pays for a Wi-Fi network that happens to reach you.

    I'd advice two high performance dishes (dishes are known to fail and support is an issue so one on standby while waiting) and a business connection. You'll need a third party router with fair queuing, protocol and service speed shaping etc etc. I'm sure both openwrt and opnsense will do. But check this out https://libreqos.io/

  • A dilemma of choice
    1 project | /r/tmobileisp | 1 Sep 2023
    Still, ya know, a modernized kernel on the devices is a start, better wifi, also, and if they do get arround to adding at the very least driver support for the linux BQL or AQL subsystems, and apply fq_codel, or cake, they could certainly manage the uplink better. At the higher rates supplied by the link, the wifi becomes the bottleneck for which solutions appeared in the Linux kernel in 2016. There has been some good research on actively managing the link via the sqm-autorate project, and multiple middleboxes such as those from preseem (fq_codel), and my own libreqos.io (cake) , might be able to manage the downlink better with the addition of link level stats, at very minimal CAPEX per subscriber.
  • UK users all need to complain to Ofcom for being mis-sold Starlink
    2 projects | /r/Starlink | 7 Jun 2023
    Also, people would notice starlink going to hell less often if starlink would just deploy libreqos.io.
  • [GN] Strange AliExpress Motherboards with Built-in CPUs: Erying Skyline & Polestar
    1 project | /r/hardware | 14 May 2023
    With dual 2.5 Gb/s and Alder Lake single-thread perf, I was thinking high-end latency-optimized QoS/Firewall for gigabit internet. CAKE and LibreQoS would love this thing.
  • Bufferbloat and NBN FTTN. Is it normal to only get a C rating on a waveform test across 3 modem routers?
    1 project | /r/nbn | 8 May 2023
    It is so wonderful to see so many happy SQM users all over the world. That said, do you think NBN might consider installing libreqos.io to benefit all their other users one day?
  • SQM (optimizing for videoconferencing and gaming) on the current eero products
    2 projects | /r/amazoneero | 13 Apr 2023
    I am curious as to the availability and functionality these days of the fq_codel option on the eero 6 and eero 6 business? When I last paid attention about a year ago ( https://www.reddit.com/r/eero/comments/u7xm83/gen_2_sqm_vs_gen_3_sqm_stick_with_gen_2_if_you/ ) only the gen2 had cake, and a lot of folk struggled with correct behaviors at +500Mbit with the 6's implementation of fq_codel. (The +500Mbit problems kind of indirectly spawned the libreqos.io project, which pushes the inbound shaping to a middlebox at the ISP) Anyway, did it get better? Does RFC3168 style ecn work on the wifi?
  • [Tutorial] How to setup SQM QoS for GeForce Now on OpenWRT routers with Cake for no packet loss and frame loss
    3 projects | /r/GeForceNOW | 21 Mar 2023
    You probably already know this, but the team behind Cake SQM are pushing to get ISPs to implement the free LibreQoS on their side, so that many more users could benefit from SQM: https://libreqos.io/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cake and LibreQoS you can also consider the following projects:

NUKE - 🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET

TrafficToll - NetLimiter-like bandwidth limiting and QoS for Linux

MSBuild - The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.

my-internet-speed - 🛎️ Monitor the speed your ISP is delivering

FAKE - FAKE - F# Make

3proxy - 3proxy - tiny free proxy server

Psake - A build automation tool written in PowerShell

tmo-monitor - A lightweight, cross-platform Python 3 script that can monitor the T-Mobile Home Internet Nokia, Arcadyan, and Sagecom 5G Gateways for 4G/5G bands, cellular site (tower), and internet connectivity and reboots as needed or on-demand.

Invoke-Build - Build Automation in PowerShell

IP2Location-Python - This module is a Python Library that enables the user to find the country, region, city, coordinates, zip code, ISP, domain name, timezone, connection speed, IDD code, area code, weather station code, weather station name, mobile, usage types, address type and IAB category that any IP address or host name originates from.

Nake - Magic script-based C# task runner for .NET Core

SUID3NUM - A standalone python script which utilizes python's built-in modules to enumerate SUID binaries, separate default binaries from custom binaries, cross-match those with bins in GTFO Bin's repository & auto-exploit those, all with colors! ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)