100mb speed on USB adapter
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Hello.
I have installed pfsense on GIGABYT BRIX and it only has one integrated network card (I used it as WAN port), so I added one USB to ethernet adapter for LAN.
I have tried diffrent USB ports (even C-type adapter for ethernet), but on all of that I get 100mb/s speed, but on my laptop it works fine with 1G/s.Is there any command to force 1GB/s on the USB adapter for pfsense or is there any other way to avoid that issue?
Thanks!
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@lukazabav said in 100mb speed on USB adapter:
Is there any command to force 1GB/s on the USB adapter for pfsense or is there any other way to avoid that issue?
No and the way to avoid is use proven NIC with pfSense...
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@nollipfsense Can i manually install drivers of that adapter on pfsense (in CLI or maybe GUI)
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@lukazabav Sure...you'll need to recompile though if you have the skill.
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@nollipfsense Thanks for the information. Have any ideas/suggestion on how to do that? I'll try it anyway.
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@lukazabav Wanted to try when I had the need (using a Mac Mini with its Broadcom NIC); but, it quickly became overwhelming for the neophyte, me. So, instead of reinventing the wheel, I just got an Intel NIC and used a thunderbolt enclosure.
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There are some USB NICs that will work as a generic USB Ethernet device but can also use the specific driver for the chipset and get better performance.
What does that device look like in the boot log?
Steve
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@stephenw10 it shows up as USB adapter with 10/100/1000 speed options.
Anyway i have figure it out. So as I said, I used intergrated NIC for WAN interface and USB to ethernet adapter for LAN interface. First I tried plugging in ethernet cable to my intergrated NIC Intel(r) ethernet connection i219-lm adapter on wich I had 100mbps speed.
I went testing that interface and noticed that intergrated NIC on my laptop was always the same speed (even if I pluged ethernet cable to professional switch - Juniper or just dummy switch). But if I added another USB to Ethernet adapter and pluged this one to my laptop it worked with 1Gbps.
So I went and reinstalled drivers for my laptop NIC, installed all updates and nothing changed.I went testing on another laptop - same story. I couldnt get 1Gbps speed on integrated NIC and it worked only if I used USB to ethernet adapter for laptop.
Then the last thing that came on my mind was that i changed ethernet cable to 6a category and ... it started working on 1Gbps.
I'll do some more testing and reasearch but for now its working with 1Gbps.
Thanks for help!
