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    • ipeetablesI
      ipeetables
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      it seems like you tested pretty well but here are some other ideas.

      do an iperf3 from wan interface to lan interface.

      or hook another system up using the same network card to your wan and try speedtest there.

      try another speedtest host other than speedtest.net

      are you glass or copper between isp device and r440?

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        yeahmagnets @ipeetables
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        @ipeetables Using glass (fiber) cable between isp sw & R440 server, R440 also one 1Gb classic ethernet port, strangely i can see 930mbps down - 800mbps on that port through speedtest.net, very strange situation 🙄 copper port gives 930mbps download but the fiber one between 230-400mbps
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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          What NICs are those 10G interfaces?

          Do you see errors in Status > Interfaces?

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            yeahmagnets @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 said in Low speed download on Fiber internet:

            What NICs are those 10G interfaces?

            Do you see errors in Status > Interfaces?

            No errors on status->interfaces
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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              When you were testing at full speed you were using bxe NICs on both sides?

              The CLI speedtest from pfSense itself always shows low but I wouldn't expect it to be that low. Especially since a client behind it can pull 1G.

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                yeahmagnets
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                @stephenw10 said in Low speed download on Fiber internet:

                When you were testing at full speed you were using bxe NICs on both sides?

                Yes both nics are bxe and it drives me crazy, isp checked everything, today they made another test with fiber speedtest device it shows 4.98Mbps for download but with pfsense i'm getting 600Mbps top.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Almost certainly some bxe quirk. That's quite dramatic though. Really feels like it's not linking at 10G with that sort of throttling. I assume the switches show 10G?

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                    yeahmagnets @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 said in Low speed download on Fiber internet:

                    Almost certainly some bxe quirk. That's quite dramatic though. Really feels like it's not linking at 10G with that sort of throttling. I assume the switches show 10G?

                    Exactly, they've changed switch twice and both old and new one shows as 10G, also changed the cable 3 times and NIC but didn't solved, really depressed about this :)

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                    • Dobby_D
                      Dobby_ @yeahmagnets
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                      @yeahmagnets

                      And a used or refurbed Intel 10 GBit/s card will not be
                      able to get hands on from your side?

                      • 2 Port HPE 10 GBit/s SFP+ ~49 €
                      • 2 Port HPE 10 GBIt/s Eth (GBe) ~39 €

                      Both will be based on Intel chips and gives you perhaps
                      a better performance like the old ones now.

                      #~. @Dobby

                      Turris Omnia - 4 Ports - 2 GB RAM / TurrisOS 7 Release (Btrfs)
                      PC Engines APU4D4 - 4 Ports - 4 GB RAM / pfSense CE 2.7.2 Release (ZFS)
                      PC Engines APU6B4 - 4 Ports - 4 GB RAM / pfSense+ (Plus) 24.03_1 Release (ZFS)

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        You have an internal switch too though I assume? Is that showing 10G?

                        Yeah, I would go to Intel NICs if you can.

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