WAN under 200 megs

tgrav

Hello Community,

I have a VNOPN Micro Firewall Appliance. It is an 4 Intel 2.5GbE NIC Ports Fanless Mini PC, Network Gateway Soft Router Mini Computer Intel N3700 Quad Core, Support AES-NI, 4GB DDR3, 64GB mSATA SSD and it supports Pfsense. My ISP is Spectrum and I have a 1Gig plan. The issue is my ISP tested their box and told me it is getting over a gig and it has been rebooted. But my Pfsense is only getting about 200gb when I run a speedtest using the command line (speedtest-cli). I have replace the network cable from my isp modem to wan connection to a cat6, factory reset and reinstalled pfsense (current using default setup), and pfsense cpu usage is at 4%, mem is at 7% and disk usage is at 1%. What would cause my WAN connection to be below 200GB? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

SteveITS

@tgrav Run the test on a PC behind the router so the router isn't spending CPU cycles doing the testing. Is the 4% number during the test though?

200 Mbps would be above a 100 Mbit connection. Is it showing WAN at full duplex?

Does your router have any packages installed?

If you temporarily plug a computer into the ISP modem to test does it get 1 Gbps?

Dobby_

If the ISP is testing something it is mostly done internally and they are not of the usage of PPPoE
like there customers, you! But if you are using now
from home their internet line and you are using PPPoE you may be nailed to one cpu core and not
using all 4 cores together. That´s it!

Open Your browser, download a bigger file
that the speed can be scaling up, have now
a look at the download speed and do the
counting. 8 bit = 1 Byte

I have a 50 MBit/s line and see there then
something like that:
6.2 MB/s * 8 = 49,6 MBit/s plus TCP overhead
so I am nearly 50 MBit/s and get the full speed.

So it is not really interesting me, what a speedtest is doing elsewhere.

At 1 GBit/s you may see something like
125 MB/s? Do a download from a well known website and report here back please.

tgrav

Thanks SteveITS and Dobby_. It appears to be an ISP issue. I plugged my laptop in and was only getting 300 Mbps. Guess I should have really tried the basic stuff first. Thank you for your time and assistance!