Slow throughput on 50meg connection
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Have a look on your PFTOP while downloading…
Throughput comparison of a cheap design (APU): APU 2GB + 32GB SSD = top up at 100Mbit/s (8MB/s) on IPSec VPN (AES128) interface. The link was a 200Mb Fiber.
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I am running pfsense in a vm on a hp microserver n40l so not a lot of umph there. And I have no issues with my 50/10 comcast internet connection. I actually see 57 to 58ish down and 11 to 12ish up..
I have not done anything with backend configurations or tweaking.. Out of the box running 2.1.4 i386
Downloads I see 6.8 to 6.9MBps – so clearly rocking the full pipe.. With only 8mbps I too would look to a duplex mismatch sort of error or only coming up at 10mbit on the connection.
You clearly should not have to tweak anything to get 50mbps through that box without any problems.
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Thanks for the replies I'll try the i386 version (was on 64) and I'll report back.
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You won't have been able to boot correctly if your CPU were 32bits.
Look at your speed and duplex (both LAN / WAN) in Stauts -> Interface.
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I've quadruple checked ALL interfaces to 100/full on both pfsense and switches and so I installed the 32 bit and here's the latest.
From the console I'm now getting full bandwidth.
From console:
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from .....
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by TRANSTELCO (Nogales) [108.03 km]: 22.223 ms
Testing download speed….....................................
Download: 47.11 Mbits/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 33.66 Mbits/sFrom a client on the internal interface:
Hosted by TRANSTELCO (Nogales) [108.03 km]: 22.223 ms
Download 53.64 Mbits/s
Upload 11.30 Mbits/sOkay, so what have I learned? It would appear the 32 bit version likes my hardware more than the 64 bit? maybe?
Comments? Questions? I've got many.
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Can you give us more details on your hardware? Years ago the 64bit build may have been less well tested but today there are probably more people running that than 32bit.
Steve
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I'd be happy to just give me a couple of days.
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32/64 NIC drivers ?
Sometimes, you could have trouble selecting "Autodetect" in speed and duplex, depdending on which hardware couple you are using (PF <-> Switch). Sometimes you will have to force it manually.
Does a 64bit NIC driver couldinterfer with speed an duplex autodetect ?
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How did you run speedtest.net from the command line?
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[2.1.4-RELEASE][root@pfsense]/root(1): cd /tmp
[2.1.4-RELEASE][root@pfsense]/tmp(2): wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py –no-check-certificate
[2.1.4-RELEASE][root@pfsense]/tmp(3): chmod +x speedtest-cli
[2.1.4-RELEASE][root@pfsense]/tmp(4): ./speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Comcast Cable (24.13.xx.xx)...
Selecting best server based on latency...
Hosted by ServerCentral (Chicago, IL) [40.85 km]: 20.297 ms
Testing download speed….....................................
Download: 56.79 Mbits/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 11.13 Mbits/s
