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      Limbi
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      TDP is a typical thermal output under heavy load, not the maximum possible or the average or the actual electrical drian (witch is higher). Your cpu should idling most of the time, thus using much less power. Anyway, even Skylake i3s need a bit of power while idling, I wouldn't be surprised you have more than 35w at the wallet while idling. My NAS has a skylake pentium G and with just 6 disks I see a 58w idle power drain even with a 80 platinum psu. In the near future you better if evaluating design less power hungry while idling.

      AMD Athlon 5350 @2.1Ghz
      Asus AM1M-A
      Kingston 4GB 1R 1600EC11 @C10
      Kingston V300 60GB
      Intel Pro/1000 PT dual (wan+lan)
      OEM 90w psu
      80mm case fan
      100/20M vdsl2+ internet connection
      pfsense 2.3.3dev
      some package installed

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        demannu
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        bump

        Just to update everyone and to help all the googlers out there :)

        Check the my signature for hardware config and results.

        i3 3225 3.3GHZ
        8GB DDR3
        ASRock h77m
        60GB SSD
        Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad Port
        pfSense 2.3.2
        Fibre connection 1000/500

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          jalyst
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          @demannu:

          bump

          Just to update everyone and to help all the googlers out there :)

          Check the my signature for hardware config and results.

          Lucky bugger…

          It that typical for Kiwi connections, or way above what you usually get there?
          Surely that'd cost you a fortune? What's your data quota?
          Can only dream of that in my inner-city suburb of Brisbane, bloody pathetic.

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            demannu
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            @jalyst:

            Lucky bugger…

            It that typical for Kiwi connections, or way above what you usually get there?
            Surely that'd cost you a fortune? What's your data quota?
            Can only dream of that in my inner-city suburb of Brisbane, bloody pathetic.

            Its starting to become the norm, theres pretty good fibre to the door coverage in NZ now due to the nation wide role out due to be completed 2019

            I'm with one of the bigger more expensive ISP's here in NZ, Orcon. I pay $140 a month for 1000/500, unlimited data cap and VOIP services with all the addons.. caller ID, divert, voicemail, conference calling etc they send you a "free" $400NZD router called fritzbox 3940 but i'm sure its bundled into the price.. a zero throttling ISP as well.

            Gigabit fibre plans start from $99 unlimited, pretty much all of the ISP's here price you into unlimited as its usually only $10 more than their base plans of 80-100GB

            But yeah its hardcase, theres still some CBD'ish places here in Auckland that don't have fibre to their door yet but there's tiny little towns in the middle of nowhere that have full coverage and only 20% uptake

            I get about 850/350~ to the Sydney telstra speed test server and 750/350~ to Brisbane

            i3 3225 3.3GHZ
            8GB DDR3
            ASRock h77m
            60GB SSD
            Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad Port
            pfSense 2.3.2
            Fibre connection 1000/500

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              jalyst
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              Ugh, so annoying that our NBN turned into such a political basket-case, if it hadn't, a large chunk of us would be having FTTH by now, instead of the BS "mixed services" approach we're now lumped with. Which was promised to be much faster to roll-out, & much cheaper, it has been a total fail in that regard, so why the hell didn't they just go FTTH all the way (for the most built-up areas only ofc).

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                messerchmidt
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                intel nics

                i5 or i7 setup with 16gb ram

                the supermicro atom c2758 is still a popular pick

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                  Qhris_
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                  Hello,

                  i am using an XEON E3-1225 V3 and HyperV with PFsense as VM, but I am not reaching the Gigabit :(
                  Network adapter is HP NC365T Quad-Port 4x 1 Gbps.

                  But Speed stucks at this Point:

                  Any idea?

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                    demannu
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                    Its quite possible its due to the NIC you are using.

                    People have experience gigabit performance issues using the IGB intel drivers

                    The card I'm using uses the EM drivers

                    List of IGB driver chipsets (your card is using the 82580 chipset)

                    https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=igb&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+11-current&format=html

                    List of EM driver chipsets (my card uses the 82571 chipset)

                    https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11-current

                    I also went one step further and put a intel 1340-t2 NIC into my PC to make sure I was getting the best possible performance

                    i3 3225 3.3GHZ
                    8GB DDR3
                    ASRock h77m
                    60GB SSD
                    Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad Port
                    pfSense 2.3.2
                    Fibre connection 1000/500

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                      demannu
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                      @jalyst:

                      Ugh, so annoying that our NBN turned into such a political basket-case, if it hadn't, a large chunk of us would be having FTTH by now, instead of the BS "mixed services" approach we're now lumped with. Which was promised to be much faster to roll-out, & much cheaper, it has been a total fail in that regard, so why the hell didn't they just go FTTH all the way (for the most built-up areas only ofc).

                      Hah, yeah I heard about it all going belly up over there and it turning to "fibre to the node" instead.. what a rubbish idea..

                      Friend of mine living in Melbourne is a bit of a conspirator and reckons Murdoch had a lot to do with it because he was worried about streamers and didn't want his empire to come crashing down around him.

                      i3 3225 3.3GHZ
                      8GB DDR3
                      ASRock h77m
                      60GB SSD
                      Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad Port
                      pfSense 2.3.2
                      Fibre connection 1000/500

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                        Qhris_
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                        @demannu:

                        Its quite possible its due to the NIC you are using.

                        People have experience gigabit performance issues using the IGB intel drivers

                        The card I'm using uses the EM drivers

                        List of IGB driver chipsets (your card is using the 82580 chipset)

                        https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=igb&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+11-current&format=html

                        List of EM driver chipsets (my card uses the 82571 chipset)

                        https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=em&sektion=4&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11-current

                        I also went one step further and put a intel 1340-t2 NIC into my PC to make sure I was getting the best possible performance

                        Interesting point.
                        To disprove that argument I have just installed Iperf on HyperV and Lan Client and speed is ~950 Mbit/s

                        Could the NIC still be the guilty thing?

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                          demannu
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                          I missed out something important in my original post..

                          If you're using PPPoE, PPPoE isn't able to utilize all driver queues at high speeds using IGB, in your case, gigabit.

                          https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4821

                          As far as I can tell this isn't a problem with EM drivers.

                          i3 3225 3.3GHZ
                          8GB DDR3
                          ASRock h77m
                          60GB SSD
                          Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad Port
                          pfSense 2.3.2
                          Fibre connection 1000/500

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                            jalyst
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                            @demannu:

                            @jalyst:

                            Ugh, so annoying that our NBN turned into such a political basket-case, if it hadn't, a large chunk of us would be having FTTH by now, instead of the BS "mixed services" approach we're now lumped with. Which was promised to be much faster to roll-out, & much cheaper, it has been a total fail in that regard, so why the hell didn't they just go FTTH all the way (for the most built-up areas only ofc).

                            Hah, yeah I heard about it all going belly up over there and it turning to "fibre to the node" instead.. what a rubbish idea..

                            Friend of mine living in Melbourne is a bit of a conspirator and reckons Murdoch had a lot to do with it because he was worried about streamers and didn't want his empire to come crashing down around him.

                            No one to blame but Liberal's Tony Abbott & his inner cohort, & their extreme opposition to everything while in opposition, worked masterfully for a while & helped his star to rise, but that whole style/approach came back to haunt him, & was ultimately his demise. And the more moderate Liberal Malcolm Turnbull just had to run with it all, & run with it he did, by birthing what TA initially conceptualised, a highly flawed system that will actually cost us more in the long run (despite their rhetoric), when we find we have to re-upgrade large sections.

                            But we digress, sorry.

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