@TP-Link Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it. I have used this in the past but on aftermarket firmware as it's rare to find built in as a feature, Eero is the biggest that specifically advertises the feature on a normal mesh system that I'm aware of anyway. That said it should also be easy to test out as it's built into OpenWRT which is extremely popular and many people run on TP Link Archer routers. Your routers are quite common recommendations for those wanting to run OpenWRT and if they install it then they have SQM as an option.

For me, the two things I really see the benefits of SQM in my personal use are for gaming, and Zoom and other video conferencing software. These of would see the benefits daily as the ping times are so much better. Especially when I try and use things like Microsoft's cloud gaming service, latency can be a huge issue then for sure and I'm very much not a competitive gamer, so if I see it with the little bit I do then it's huge. Gamers complain about ping all the time, reducing this would be appreciated by many customers I'm sure.  Remote work, zoom, teams and webex video calls are the other time I see I nice improvement and that I use a lot personally. Last case which is rarer for me but I've definitely been affected is large uploads, then my bloat can get so bad it affects my download speeds even.

My personal bufferbloat is not the worst, but say on my wired desktop I ping Google non stop, my response times are say 40ms, if I then run a speed test at the same time my pings jump to 140-160ms. That's not the worst in the world, but I'm also only doing two things as a simple test. I'd love to get rid of ping spikes like that, especially when I'm my house there may be 3 video calls going on at one in multiple rooms in real life usage so it can be much worse than 160ms!

Hope that helps, happy to assist as needed and I hope others find this useful, I'm sure if it was an option users would really like it. Make it an option alongside QOS that people could enable and disable with one click in the Deco app, that would be perfect!

I just bought the Archer AX20 to replace an aging Zyxel, with intent to load the latest OpenWrt so I can use the cake SQM. But it would be great if the native firmware supported it, so regular users can get the benefit of de-bloating their family's interactive audio and video streams. 

@TP-Link this would excellent! I formerly had an eero pro and the sqm on it was amazing. Only problem I had with it was stability and switched over to the deco m9 plus which improved it! SQM is the one feature I miss on eero pro and would love to see it implemented into the deco line of products (especially the m9 plus). Thanks!

@DDuck I agree, the Deco lineup seems to be a popular alternative for people that are moving on from Eero. Adding SQM would pull more users from there I am sure as it's a very popular reason to stick with or choose Eero in the first place.

@SpiderLAN 

Would like to request this feature too. Would be fantastic for my deco networks.

+1 on SQM being a necessity for fighting bufferbloat.

Would love to see it on the x68 / x3600. Currently using the products in AP mode and letting my WRT1900ACS handle routing since it does SQM beautifully. Would very much love to simplify and have the Deco doing all the heavy lifting.