The US Coast Guard Station out of Traverse City initially took/posted these photos to their Facebook page... then MLive picked it up and now Smithsonian Magazine.

Here is their Facebook page if anyone is interested, they post some pretty interesting stuff: https://www.facebook.com/AIRSTATVC

I ran PfSense for a year or so... never could get the QoS working completely right and all the tutorials I found weren't the greatest.

Has anything changed with the QoS configuration?

I've since moved to an Untangle VM that has worked great... yes the interface might be "dumbed down", but everything has been working excellent.