The CHOKe packet scheduler

The only thing you can control within your network are transmitted packets. If you have much upstream traffic, or significant interference in your wireless network, those are places which could benefit from this scheduler. But, if you have asymmetrical traffic, with most traffic received from your ISP, and have no long transmit queues, your ISP has to do this scheduling on your flows.

One could do something similar by emulating a slightly slower link after receipt from your ISP. For example, if you have a 8 Mbps link from your ISP, you could put an artificial link of 7 Mbps out of your router (method for this left as an exercise for the reader). Then, if the queues start growing on that 7 Mbps link, packets could be discarded there. This would tend to prevent your 8 Mbps link from being congested, at the expense of not getting your full 8 Mbps. But, it would be much better for the ISP to install the CHOKe scheduler, so it would only start dropping packets when the average was over 8 Mbps.