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      infinityz
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      UPDATE:

      Changed my configuration accordingly to your suggestions.

      WAN: public IP from cable modem

      WLAN: 192.168.1.1 DHCP enabled

      LAN: 192.168.2.1 DHCP enabled

      Everything is working as expected, but the transfer speed between WLAN and LAN is very slow, 1mbyte/sec roughly
      No traffic shaping or QoS enabled of course…..any idea? :-\

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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        Your wireless sucks?  Would be my first guess ;) hehehe

        How are you testing?  Last test I got 271Mbps over a wireless AC connection without even trying to tweak anything..  And my pfsense is virtual on old N40L hardware, etc.  Plug something in with a wire on pfsense wlan segment what are your speeds then?

        What is your wireless AP, clients?  Are you G, N, AC?  How are you doing the test showing 1MBps?

        Did you completely remove all the bridging stuff..  Maybe you got multicast you don't want flooding your wlan causing issues?

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          infinityz
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          @johnpoz:

          Your wireless sucks?  Would be my first guess ;) hehehe

          How are you testing?  Last test I got 271Mbps over a wireless AC connection without even trying to tweak anything..  And my pfsense is virtual on old N40L hardware, etc.  Plug something in with a wire on pfsense wlan segment what are your speeds then?

          What is your wireless AP, clients?  Are you G, N, AC?  How are you doing the test showing 1MBps?

          Did you completely remove all the bridging stuff..  Maybe you got multicast you don't want flooding your wlan causing issues?

          I'd agree with you about the wireless that sucks :-) But this is not the case, with my previous configuration, all ports bridged, my speed was around 50mbytes/sec.
          the AP configuration didn't change.

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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            50MBytes ps over wireless?  So 400Mbps roughly – yeah I find that a little hard to believe ;)

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              Yup, need to clarify bits or bytes.
              Such a dramatic reduction look for a duplex mismatch. Are you using the fxp interface? I've seen some odd behaviour on that NIC.

              Steve

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                infinityz
                last edited by

                The AP has 4 gigabit ports, so it's acting as a switch if I connect to it over cable I can easily achieve 50mbytes/sec as transfer speed. Wirelessly 12mbytes/sec
                WLAN –> EM1
                LAN --> EM2

                The numbers above are coming from my previous setup, where all the ports were bridged, only 1 subnet and 1 dhcp server.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  So how were your NICs/subnets/cables arranged when you saw only 1MB/s?

                  Steve

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                    wired I see 900Mbps..  Yeah 50MBps over a wired gig connection would be common place..

                    If your AP has switch ports, its most likely a wireless router that your just using as AP would be my guess.

                    How are you wired currently would help us point to your problem - I would agree 1MB or 1Mb over a wire something is major wrong.. duplex mismatch would be my first bet too.

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                      infinityz
                      last edited by

                      Ok, I've made some more test!
                      I've enabled the HW offload and I've attached a laptop directly to the WLAN interface. Transfer rate between WLAN and LAN 80mbytes/sec (yes megabytes)
                      Re-connected the AP to WLAN, configured my laptop in wireless N 5ghz 450mbps rock solid at 2 mt from the AP. Transfer from WLAN to LAN 1 mbytes/sec
                      Speedtest on internet, wo WLAN to WAN 93mbps/sec

                      So looks like the problem is the wireless…but how is possible I'm getting better speed over wireless on internet then on internal lan?

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                        infinityz
                        last edited by

                        Ok, I've found the problem! For some reason my killer wireless card had the bandwidth control enabled….it's a "feature" from Atheros.

                        Many thanks for your help and sorry to wasted your time :-/

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          Never would have thought of that. Thanks for reporting back.

                          Steve

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