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      collinsl
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      OK, I will try it in the next downtime period. Thanks!

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        collinsl
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        The problem has now been traced to my PC rather than the PFSense box.

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          collinsl
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          I have now reassessed the situation after a reinstall and testing on my desktop and a complete network tear-down and I have traced the issue to PFSense, not my desktop. The initial problem still remains of download speeds being between 15 and 25 Kb/s on a 30Mb/s line on OPT1 only, the LAN connection is fine.

          Could it be that the PFSense configuration is for some reason allocating the entire bandwidth to the LAN connection, even when not in use, and OPT1 is just taking up the spare? Please note there are no traffic shaping rules enabled and I have not changed much in the default config.

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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Did you try re-assigning the NICs yet?
            It seems very strange that pfSense would be doing any throttling if you've never used it.

            Steve

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              collinsl
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              @stephenw10:

              Did you try re-assigning the NICs yet?
              It seems very strange that pfSense would be doing any throttling if you've never used it.

              Steve

              Sorry, forgot to mention, yes I did. It made no difference.

              Just for reference I did swap out the NIC cards as well and this also made no difference.

              If I get a chance sometime soon I will reinstall PFSense and see if that makes a difference.

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                collinsl
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                I have now reinstalled PFSense and the issue has been corrected… I hope. I will post back if it doesn't work, but in the man time thank you for all your efforts and suggestions.

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  You'll note that none of my suggestions actually did any good!  ::)
                  Anyway good to see you're up and running at a useful speed. Did you reinstall 1.2.3 or go to 2.0RC2?

                  Steve

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                    collinsl
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                    I have stuck with 1.2.3 as I never implemented any new features of 2.0RC1 when I tried it and it has bugs with Squid at the time. I haven't tried 2.0RC2 yet but I will test it out and see if I get the same problems with it that it had with 2.0RC1.

                    EDIT: I cannot seem to find 2.0RC2 anywhere, unless it is still going under the 2.0RC1 name.

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                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                      Yes, no official word yet on an RC2 release yet but the version reported by the interface has been rc2 for a while now.
                      See: https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/repos/mainline/commits/00c36201460dc88d4248ea9647b4131f40e5a79e

                      Steve

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                        collinsl
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                        OK, thanks!

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