Trouble with WAN not being able to get correct speed
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@Gblenn Here's how to do it if you were to use the 802.1Q VLAN setup instead.
Start by adding the ID (100 in this example) in the field, and then click ADD.
Next you need to make sure that ports 9 and 10 are removed from the list of ports using ID 1, and instead add them to ID 100.
This is done on the VLAN Membership tab.
First, with ID 1 visible, click ports 9 and 10 so that they are empty (no U or T visible).
Then select ID 100 and click ports 9 and 10 so that they read U (Untagged).
Finally go to Port VID and select ports 9 and 10 and enter ID 100 and click Apply.
Now you should be all set...I actually found a video for this where they do exactly this, but for ports 1-5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIPQhZrwBTo
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Ok I was able to seperate those ports. Now the WAN side how do i go about doing that ?
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@kilasin said in Trouble with WAN not being able to get correct speed:
Ok I was able to seperate those ports. Now the WAN side how do i go about doing that ?
Great, now all you need to do is connect port 9 to ONT and port 10 to WAN on pfsense. Your switch should then be able to negotiate 2.5G towards ONT and 10G towards pfsense.
Think of your switch as two switches in one now. Ports 1-8 are 1G and can talk to each other. Ports 9 and 10 are 2.5/10G and can talk to each other. But ports 1-8 have no knowledge of ports 9-10 and vice versa.
So ports 1-8 can be used on the LAN side as you see fit.
Although you may have solved the problem of getting more than 1G on WAN from pfsense, you don't have any way to get 10G switching on the LAN side until you add more 10G capable switch ports.
In the meantime, you can at least test that you actually get 2G or more on WAN and through pfsense. Simply connect to a VM or a PC directly to the 10G LAN port on pfsense and run speedtest.
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It Fking worked omg yes ...that is awesome!!!!!
Now how do i make the other lan port work from the switch ? I still need an extra card to send it to the other port switch so it can route them i imagine
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I got a quesiton mate .. I tried installing the RTL card drivers but to no avail i cannot see it when i do the kldstat
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@Gblenn
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stephenw10I cannot thank you enough for your help regarding this issue. You guys are absolutely awesome !!!
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@kilasin said in Trouble with WAN not being able to get correct speed:
It Fking worked omg yes ...that is awesome!!!!!
Now how do i make the other lan port work from the switch ? I still need an extra card to send it to the other port switch so it can route them i imagine
Great stuff!
What do you mean "the other lan port work from the switch?"
Consider your switch as being split up into two completely separate switches now. And since ports 9 and 10 are occupied doing the 2.5 to 10G conversion, you now only have 8 ports to handle switching on LAN. But these ports are configured like they were before and they are only capable of handling 1G connections.
So your LAN port on pfsense should now connect to say port 1, and ports 2-8 can be your VM's, your PC and perhaps if you have an access point for WiFi.
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Ya i figured that much !! i just connected my VM directly to my machine to get those speeds but i saw the switch doesnt give out the ips to ther ports lol but in any case i knwo for a fact now pfsense can do 2G which is great i just need to either make my RTL Card working or wait for the one i jsut ordered
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@kilasin said in Trouble with WAN not being able to get correct speed:
Ya i figured that much !! i just connected my VM directly to my machine to get those speeds but i saw the switch doesnt give out the ips to ther ports lol but in any case i knwo for a fact now pfsense can do 2G which is great i just need to either make my RTL Card working or wait for the one i jsut ordered
You will get IP on the other ports as soon as you connect the LAN port from pfsense into e.g. port 1.
It's a good thing you did not get IP without this, since it proves that ports 9 and 10 are isolated.So now you have proven that you can get 2.5G internet, but the bummer is that you only have two switch ports capable of such speeds, and they are now busy on the WAN side.
If you really want to continue investigating 10G networking, I would suggest you look for a new and bigger switch capable of 10G on all ports. Or perhaps you set the limit at a more reasonable 2.5G which will not cost you an arm and a leg. Even if you get it working with pfsense directly on 2.5G, you can still only connect one device on 10G. So even if your Unraid server is at 10G, you can't do much on 10G anyway.
Your PC will be connected to one of the 1G ports so file transfer is limited by that.I have seen that Qnap have switches that are reasonably priced which can to 2.5G or 2.5/10G.
To be honest, it's pretty much impossible to make any real use of 10G in a home lab scenario. It's fun playing around and learning of course, and file transfers to/from NAS will be quick. But they are typically limited by disk transfer speeds anyway, unless you go for expensive SSD's.
The only WAN application that I have found being able to reach significant speeds are game downloads from Steam or Blizzard which I have seen reaching up to 3 Gbit sometimes. -
@kilasin said in Trouble with WAN not being able to get correct speed:
I tried installing the RTL card drivers but to no avail i cannot see it when i do the kldstat
Do you see the loader lines in loader.conf.local?
You should be the module being loaded before the kernel starts if you have the console output.
You could save a port on the switch by using VLANs in dot1Q mode instead of port-vlan mode. But it would mean a more complex setup in pfSense.
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Ya i use it for my own business and then for my steam cache which i wanted to use on 10G but this is great to be honest and ya another switch might be in order to be honest but this has been awesome to learn i really cannot thank you guys enough ...
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using this command " ee /boot/loader.conf.local "I see a different lines command when using this
command "ee /boot/loader.conf
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@stephenw10 said in Trouble with WAN not being able to get correct speed:
You could save a port on the switch by using VLANs in dot1Q mode instead of port-vlan mode. But it would mean a more complex setup in pfSense.
How would you do that? He only has one switch and there are only two ports on that switch capable of 2.5/10G. One of the ports is connected to ONT and the other to WAN on pfsense. The only purpose of which is to convert 2.5G to 10G towards pfsense since that NIC couldn't negotiate 2.5.
I can't really se any way where he could use one of those switch ports for anything else??
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@stephenw10 said in Trouble with WAN not being able to get correct speed:
You could save a port on the switch by using VLANs in dot1Q mode instead of port-vlan mode. But it would mean a more complex setup in pfSense.
How would you do that? He only has one switch and there are only two ports on that switch capable of 2.5/10G. One of the ports is connected to ONT and the other to WAN on pfsense. The only purpose of which is to convert 2.5G to 10G towards pfsense since that NIC couldn't negotiate 2.5.
I can't really se any way where he could use one of those switch ports for anything else??
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it is good to learn how it would, to be honest for someone who might not be able to and is a noob like me. I am small business owner and well im the IT team / Marketing/Sales and what not in 1 so learning all this stuff is good for me and to someone else caught in the same predictament as me..
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You should remove or comment out those lines you added to loader.conf.
The loader.conf.local file has priority and doesn't get overwritten by the system. It looks like you missed the leading
/there. The line should be:
if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"In dot1q VLAN mode you would only need one link to pfSense from the switch. You would use VLANs to separate the WAN and LAN traffic in pfSense and send all of that over the one 10G to the switch.
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ok i did that .. i still cant see it when i do kldstat
hmmm i might be doing somethin really wrong here
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Regarding this
@stephenw10 said in Trouble with WAN not being able to get correct speed:
In dot1q VLAN mode you would only need one link to pfSense from the switch. You would use VLANs to separate the WAN and LAN traffic in pfSense and send all of that over the one 10G to the switch.
Essentially do the splitting in PFsense and having 1 free port from the 10G if im correct. The ONT would become also a LAN in PFsense but it would seperate it if understand that correctly from the pfSense side not the switch side and then take lets say port 10 out of the WAN side in the switch leavcing port 9 to do both WAN and LAN i think.
BTW i order an intel 225i card but i am determined to make this rtl work eventually just for my knowledge point of view
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Do you see the module present in /boot/modules?
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i do not. I guess perhaps it is not saving it ?however, when i got into pfsense web interface and check under there i can see it
