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    Would this be hardware enough for 1Gb fiber ?

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      tontze @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10 No, dhcp

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Probably be fine then. I don't have one to test though.

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          Tzvia @stephenw10
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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.

          Tzvia

          Current build:
          Hunsn/CWWK Pentium Gold 8505, 6x i226v 'micro firewall'
          16 gigs ram
          500gig WD Blue nvme
          Using modded BIOS (enabled CSTATES)
          PFSense 2.72-RELEASE
          Enabled Intel SpeedShift
          Snort
          PFBlockerNG
          LAN and 5 VLANS

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            tontze @Tzvia
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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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              tedquade @tontze
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              @tontze Install pfSense and give it a go!

              Ted

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                tontze
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                Oh well, default settings ..

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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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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                    matrikkel @stephenw10
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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.

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                    It seems to give lower values than

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                      tontze @matrikkel
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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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                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @tontze
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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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                          matrikkel @tontze
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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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                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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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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                              tontze @stephenw10
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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.

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