Internet Speed Issue with SG-2100
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Hi
I bought a SG-2100 recently and really liked it, compact and good enough for me but unfortunately it chops the Internet speed basically into half !
If I connect the Internet directly from Cable Modem to PC Ethernet and download a standard file ( lets say Windows ISO directly from Microsoft ) it gives me 120 MB/S whereas if it pass through the SG-2100 speed turns into half 60-70 MB/S
I reinstalled the OS, clean box with no extra software but still the speed is 60-70 MB/s This speed is good enough for Wifi connection almost the max speed that WIFI AX supports but I need to download some huge files and I need to use the Ethernet Cable grab them with my Max Speed of 120MB/SSo Whats the maximum actual speed that SG-2100 support ?
Thanks
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@blackh0le said in Internet Speed Issue with SG-2100:
but I need to download some huge files and I need to use the Ethernet Cable grab them with my Max Speed of 120MB/S
With a "cabled" LAN you still find the Wifi speed => did you de activate the Wifi on your PC ?
I don't own a SG-2100, but a 'new, out of the box' system can reach several hundreds of mega bits /sec.
For example : Netgate SG-2100 pfsense Firewall Hardware Review -
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@gertjan
of course the wireless was completely disabled!when internet passes through SG2100 download speed downgrades to 60 MB/s but when the router is directly connected to the PC through the lan I get the max speed ( my port limit )which is 120 MB/s
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@blackh0le said in Internet Speed Issue with SG-2100:
So Whats the maximum actual speed that SG-2100 support ?
You have unfortunately bought below your needs :-(
The SG-2100 is not a full speed1000Mbit (Gigabit) firewall device. If you have no traffic monitoring packages installed is will route/firewall about 600Mbit (~65MB/s) at peak throughput. With monitoring packages that figure will go down a lot.
The SG-3100 is the first full speed Gigabit appliance from netgate, but I would not advice you to buy that. It is End of Sale, and there has been several problems with it because it's CPU is a 32bit CPU only. It may be replaced by a new model soon, but no info on this has been made available.
The SG-5100 is also End of Sale, but that is a x86-64bit bit CPU, and it will handle your needs perfectly. But like I said its End of Sale, so you need to find one in stock somewhere if you still want this model.
Otherwise the situation is unfortunately the SG-6100 is your "next up" model, and that is likely somewhat overkill for your situation. But that is a VERY nice and capable box (Can handle several Gigabit).
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@keyser said in Internet Speed Issue with SG-2100:
You have unfortunately bought below your needs :-(
Good catch .... bits are not bytes. The convention says : 8 bits is a byte.
@blackh0le said in Internet Speed Issue with SG-2100:
120 MB/S
== close to 1000 Mega bits /sec.
Strange ....
Throwing "can a SG-2100 do more then 1000 Mega bits or 1 Giga bits" in "your favourite search engine" would have answered that that question right away.
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Why not just use the SG-7100 on the picture? That will handle Gigabit just fine :-)
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@keyser to be honest with you I needed a compact official hardware, SG-7100 has its own dilemma and I found 2100 more effective and in some aspects faster processing power than SG-7100
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@blackh0le said in Internet Speed Issue with SG-2100:
@keyser to be honest with you I needed a compact official hardware, SG-7100 has its own dilemma and I found 2100 more effective and in some aspects faster processing power than SG-7100
The 7100 is a somewhat strange device when it comes to discrete NICs - most of its ports is on a LAGG uplinked switch which makes configuration “strange” and sometimes decidedly tricky.
But I sincerely fail to see any case where you would find the slow dual core ARM processor in SG-2100 faster than the Atom processor in the 7100. The atom has a big lead in per core performance (-3x) and especially all core performance (up to 12x).
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@blackh0le said in Internet Speed Issue with SG-2100:
@keyser to be honest with you I needed a compact official hardware, SG-7100 has its own dilemma and I found 2100 more effective and in some aspects faster processing power than SG-7100
But the SG-2100 is a VERY sweet little box if the 600-700mbit firewall performance without inspection is good enough for your needs. It handles pfBlockerNG without breaking a sweat.
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@keyser
Currently SG-2100 with PfblockerNG and Snort gives me download speed of up to 70 MBytes /s
Disabling services is not impacting the speed much, I was thinking when the device has lan 1000 ports it gives 1000 speed
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As others have said you won't get full 1G through the 2100 for a file transfer like that.
You might get closer to 800Mbps for multiple streams and without Snort running.
With both pfBlocker and Snort running for a file transfer what you are seeing looks to be what I would expect.
Steve
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@stephenw10
Ok thanks
So as it seems I have to cleanup and reformat my 7100 and use that
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Conclusion :
Switched back to 7100 ( drive was corrupted, I had to reinstall the system )
**7100 Download Speed with Active Snort & PFSBlockerNG Dev & ... ** exact same speed that Cable Modem gives ...
BUT
SG-2100 gives enough throughput to be used with WIFI, it can reach the WIFI AX-E Max speed ( ~ 70MB/s )Thanks for all the replies and guidance
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