So I got to try out this connection. So it is an copper ADSL, with max speeds of 3.5 /0.5 Mbps Download/Upload.

However when I try speedtesting it with my laptop using a cable I cannot obtain speeds of more than 1.8 Mbps. When I try my phone on WiFi it works better for some reason and I get speeds of 2.5 Mbps.

However the latency and jitter seem to be all over the place. And sometimes you get pings of 200-300 ms when only one computer is connected. It does seem you can get a decent latency under ideal circumstances in a game, but as soon as another program starts using bandwidth like Steam or Windows Updates, there is a massive lag spike.

So can anything be done about this!? Like for instance bufferbloat mitigation? Or is this connection essentially useless, I mean even for surfing you have to wait for things to load, haha

Sorry, been away for a week. Of course you can use the analogy if it works for you.

And btw another question is bufferbloat, only when other devices are hogging the bandwidth?

Because in my case what happens is that another application does something in the background, and then I get a ping spike because my internet is that poor (2.6 Mbps / 0.4 Mbps).

So I guess another router would not help with that when it is only one computer that is connected to the router? Or do I misunderstand bufferbloat?