Not your average "internet speed" problem...
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@panja said in Not your average "internet speed" problem...:
When doing Speedtest (doing 5 different sites) I'm not getting no where near full speed,
and (I recap) :
When I test my local networks, overall speed is about 8 times faster, latency is an order of magnitude smaller.
So, easy : follow the wires, starting at the WAN port of Q box, up to these "5 sites" and redo them ( redo the Internet, sorry ).
Where are these 5 sites ? How is your peer to the Internet ? These 5 sites, how they are peered ? There are so many factors, and there is so little you can do.You've checked Configuring CoDel Limiters for Bufferbloat ?
Btw : get another cable, drill some holes, and connect your SG108 to the Q-box directly instead of using the switch of the Archer TPLink.
Depending what your internal network usage is, you might get a better result. -
Make sure your test traffic between VLANs is actually going through pfSense. Check the traffic graphs whilst testing.
It would be possible to configure OpenWRT on the C7 to route between those VLANs and that could be masking/causing the problem. -
All ports are 1GB Full Duplex. Not running any additional packages except Wireguard. Cpu does not give a sweat at all, i5 5250u processor. Also when connected to the Archer C7 I do not have any problems.
A problem with my ISP is what I thought first but when connected directly to the Archer C7 gives me full speed when doing speedtests. So I don't think it has to do with peering either.
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Take a look in the previous posts.
It could be a limiter set as @Gertjan said..
Or, it could be what @stephenw10 said about the OpenWRT on the C7 (I didn't know about that possibility). -
Yeah if OpenWRT is configured with all the VLAN as interfaces it will route between them and that could cause all sorts of problems.
Only the switch config there should be aware of the VLANs in order to trunk them.Steve
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Sorry forgot to add. It’s a really plain install of pfSense. No limiters are setup at all.
If vlan traffic is handled by the Archer instead of pfSense would file transfers not be limited as well?
I’m getting 113MB/s when transferring files between VLANs -
The VLANS are indeed configured as interfaces on OpenWRT. I will have a look if that can be changed.
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@stephenw10 said in Not your average "internet speed" problem...:
Yeah if OpenWRT is configured with all the VLAN as interfaces it will route between them and that could cause all sorts of problems.
Only the switch config there should be aware of the VLANs in order to trunk them.What I don't understand is why does file transer between vlans work as it supposted to getting near gigabit speeds.
Also I already tried:
- Put the cable, that goes in to the TL-SG108E, in an unmanaged/dumb switch, than a cable from the unmanaged swith to a second Archer C7 (OpenWRT) with same config as the other and from that Archer a cable to my laptop
Which resulted in full (internet) speeds.
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Can you swap the positions of the switch and AP?
They should all be on the same layer2 so it would make no difference but something is not right.
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Will give that a try. No problem!
Though I will do that tomorrow. The room where the switch is located is occupied by a sleeping little girl at the moment.
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@panja Did you connect a computer directly to the pfSense as suggested above? If it is still slow that would rule out the other hardware.
A few things I've found out about inconsistent results, that may or may not help...
Afternoon/evening background traffic is usually higher. People get home from work or school and stream video. While not everyone can run speed tests at 4-5 am that is often where peak speed is seen. At this point I'm rather surprised to get full/expected speed tests from around 3-4 pm to midnight, even at business clients. If your neighborhood's connection is "full" then it doesn't matter if your house is idle.
Different speed test sites can give wildly different results even when run within seconds of each other, especially during busy evenings.
IPv4 vs IPv6 can be different, especially so if using a tunnel like Hurricane Electric.
Depending on the ISP, using your ISP's speed test site might be faster than third party test sites.
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Some TP-Link switches, including I believe that model, have problems with VLANs. That might be your issue.
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@jknott said in Not your average "internet speed" problem...:
TP-Link switches, including I believe that model, have problems with VLANs
The VLAN problem is fixed in hardware revision 3.0 and above
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@mcury said in Not your average "internet speed" problem...:
@jknott said in Not your average "internet speed" problem...:
TP-Link switches, including I believe that model, have problems with VLANs
The VLAN problem is fixed in hardware revision 3.0 and above
Well, we can still blame them.
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I have tried to put my laptop directly into the pfSense box which gives me full speeds. Also when connect to the Archer C7 I get full speeds.
The TP-Link switch has also been replaced by a Netgear as mentioned in my OP.
Getting the same problems with the Netgear.Speedtest are done right after each other.
Maybe 2 minutes between them. Which always results in the same problems. -
Except it did the same thing with a Netgear switch in there instead and with OpenWRT on the AP we can't even blame them there.
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Can you elaborate?
I don’t quite understand what you mean. Sorry! -
Sorry I was replying to @JKnott but my reply ended up out of order.
You might need a packet capture to see what's happening there. Seem like something low level, and IP/MAC conflict maybe.
No errors logged anywhere? On any of those devices?
Steve
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Ahhhh ok. I see now.
I will try to do some more (error) testing tomorrow and also look if I can find anything in the logs.
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Is the OpenWRT in router mode or did you set it up in AP
mode?
