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PfSense on Hyper-V - lower WAN speed

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    codera
    last edited by May 10, 2018, 3:44 PM May 10, 2018, 3:37 PM

    Hi!

    I have a 300/300Mbps WAN connection from ISP.
    pfSense VM on Hyper-V gives me on speedtest.net only 150-180Mbps for download and 180-220Mbps for upload.
    VM has 2x vCPU and 4GB RAM, storage is on SSD. It is gen2 VM.
    This is a small deployment, because of this right now i have only one NIC on the PC and use VLAN´s with HP1810G switch.
    PC has Intel I219-V NIC, so i didnt find VMQ setting. I tried disabling it on Hyper-V VM NIC´s, but it didnt have any efferct.
    When doing speedtests pfSense CPU spikes to 30-40%

    Should i try changing anything or can i even get better wan speed from this deployment?

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      Wizard76 @codera
      last edited by Jan 6, 2019, 3:57 AM

      refer to this thread
      https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/ca93a8bc-500a-49e3-be6e-bf3407d8d798/hyperv-is-not-configured-to-enable-processor-resource-controls?forum=win10itprovirt

      i used bcdedit /set hypervisorschedulertype classic to fix the latency, intermittent, and bandwidth issues
      this is needed on win10 1803 and 1809

      also in pfsense under System/Advanced/Networking make sure
      Disable hardware checksum offload
      Disable hardware TCP segmentation offload
      Disable hardware large receive offload
      are checkmarked with certain networkcards such as realteks

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