APU1D4 - speed

Panja

No VLAN's, max 7% cpu load.

weimaraner

could you try connecting the firewall directly to the modem an test the throughput?

Guest

I have enabled PowerD now and set it to hi adaptive.

Ok

How can I create a loader.conf.local file?

/boot/loader.conf.local must be created by your self!

Not that we are talking here about two different things! The 650 MBit/s - 750 MBit/s
are measured with iPerf from on PC to another PC through the APU 1D4 and not with a
download, a so called speed test server in the Internet or else where! And this comes
really closer to the 500 MBit/s you are talking about.

And let us now talk about MB/s and MBit/s please!!!
If you have a Internet connection with 120 MBit/s down the theoretically throughput is the following!
120 MBit/s (Megabit) : 8 Bit = 15 MB/s (Megabyte) because 8 Bit = 1 Byte

So and if you now telling us you got 15 MB/s throughput it is the theoretically top of 120 MBit/s
and all is fine on your side!

Panja

I know the story about bits and bytes. ;)

I have a 120/12mbit per second connection which would make me download around 15mbyte per second.
But with the APU in front of it I'm getting 50-60mbit per second, so roughly around 6mbyte per second.
Which is half of my actual connection…

aGeekhere

is this related to my problem?

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=98900.0

I can only download from the APU1D4 pfsense local squid cache at about 28 Megabytes per second (220mbps), before hitting 100% cpu load.

Panja

Thanks for the repy but I'm not using squid (yet). Only basic install without any packages.

aGeekhere

What transfer speed are you getting from local pfsense to your pc? are you getting 550mbit?

Panja

I have put 1 pc in LAN port and 1 pc in OPT1 and started a iPerf3 test.
I'm hitting 550mbit on both sides.

aGeekhere

hmm only getting half of that

Stewart

One common issue I've had with the APU1x series is high CPU load on the System side slowing things down. Open up SSH and use Putty to connect in. Once in, run top or top -aSH and look at the system pct up top. That might give a clue. Also, System->Networking it might be worth it to toggle Polling to see if that helps.

Panja

I have just reset the unit back to factory defaults and everything looks stable now.
Getting a solid 14,4mbyte per second now (without any packages etc) which should be the max of my connection (14,4 * 8 = 115,2mbit).

So I think my problem is solved now.

Thanks for all the help!

Guest

@aGeekHere

hmm only getting half of that

With Squid installed it would narrow down the entire speed for sure, you should be
able to measuring the throughput like Panja was doing, plain install and then from port to port
between two PCs with iPerf.