Would this be hardware enough for 1Gb fiber ?
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@tontze said in Would this be hardware enough for 1Gb fiber ?:
2x 512K L2
That's the L2 cache not the system RAM, that shouldn't be an issue.
I would expect that to pass 1G.
Is the provider using PPPoE?
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@stephenw10 No, dhcp
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Probably be fine then. I don't have one to test though.
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@stephenw10 said in Would this be hardware enough for 1Gb fiber ?:
@tontze said in Would this be hardware enough for 1Gb fiber ?:
2x 512K L2
That's the L2 cache not the system RAM, that shouldn't be an issue.
I would expect that to pass 1G.
Is the provider using PPPoE?
Oh, I missed that... so what is the memory amount?? I see it takes ddr3 so if you don't have much memory in it (2gigs would be a basic setup to run for example, PFSense with maybe a few lists...) it may be hard to find some at a reasonable price at this point.
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@Tzvia Yeah, it has 2GB. Maybe i give it a go and see how it performs. Is there any apps or such to do some traffic tests through ? That would be awesome for testing HW :)
Like looping through wan and lan to see maximum ?
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@tontze Install pfSense and give it a go!
Ted
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Oh well, default settings ..
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Running that from pfSense itself will always give a lower value. That looks to be using a server quite a long way away also. However that does seems much lower than I'd expect.
Try testing from a client on the LAN behind pfSense.
Steve
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For a sake of curiosity I had to try speedtest-cli from pfsense that runs on rubbish bin hardware from 2006-2007. The nominal bandwidth is 1Gb down/up. During the setup there are other family members in the network so test results vary.
It seems to give lower values than
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@matrikkel Nice. I took my system down. I was connecting RJ45 to it and allmost burnt my hand .. It was HOT. Even though there was very little traffic, but i quess HW was just too much outdated.
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@tontze said in Would this be hardware enough for 1Gb fiber ?:
I was connecting RJ45 to it and allmost burnt my hand .. It was HOT
Yeah that should never happen! Sounds like a hardware fault somewhere.
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@tontze said in Would this be hardware enough for 1Gb fiber ?:
@matrikkel Nice. I took my system down. I was connecting RJ45 to it and allmost burnt my hand .. It was HOT. Even though there was very little traffic, but i quess HW was just too much outdated.
Or then there is some sort of junction resistance, not so good connection in the rj45 socket. I think cable quality playes part in here.
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The current passed by Ethernet is very low, it should never get hot like that.
Perhaps you had Power-over-Ethernet configured?
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@stephenw10 said in Would this be hardware enough for 1Gb fiber ?:
The current passed by Ethernet is very low, it should never get hot like that.
Perhaps you had Power-over-Ethernet configured?
ah, sry, it was computer that was hot, not the cable :) That computer is passively cooled.
