Need help getting pfsense to work properly
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What Nics are you using?
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Two realtek they can be considered noname, however i did test another NICs and got the exact same results. In theory they both run at 100baseTx Full duplex, if that means anything useful.
Please tell me what information should i share so this problem can be diagnosed easyly? thanks -
100baseTx
your Nics are not gigabit or your switch/cable might not be gig, you should get 1000 but anyway you do not need gigabit for 75mbps
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My internet connection is about 75-80 mbps and the NICs as well as the cables are 100mbps. I never said anything about gigabit, anyways where should i start looking for the problem?
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" I never said anything about gigabit"
Just wanted to point out to you thats why you are seeing 100 cos your gear is not gig.
what is your setup like? whats your hardware? try plugging in the PC directly to pfsense LAN eliminating switch and cabling
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OKay so, this is how my setup looks like: INTERNET -> pfsense -> laptop(using LAN)
No switch or gateway or bridge or anything used. -
is your modem bridged? are you getting a external IP in pfsense wan ? not a internal ip such as 192.168.x.x and what hardware are you using to run pfsense?
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As i mentioned before no bridge used. I have an username and a password; and the connection is pppoE.
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The hardware:
Mobo: MSI using G31 chipset (https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/G31TMP21#hero-overview)
CPU: E8500 (https://ark.intel.com/products/33911/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-E8500-6M-Cache-3_16-GHz-1333-MHz-FSB)
RAM: 1*2gb 800mhz Kingston
HDD: 80gb IDE hdd 7.2k rpm -
You should bridge it. what is the lan IP you given to pfsense ?
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192.168.1.1/24
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and whats the ip you are getting from your modem to pfsense wan?
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I can't tell you that, but starts with 85 or 89 if i remember correctly.
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if your modem is not bridged you should be getting a internal IP like 192.168.x.x on wan so if you are getting external ip your modem is bridged.
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hmmm… man learns every day, thanks for the info. is that good or bad news?
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What should i do now?
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try turning off the modem and pfsense for a while maybe you got multiple IPs queued from your ISP or try Intel nics
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The modem can't be turned off because it is outside extremely high and gets power from the street. I tryed again today and same behaviour. Any tips left? I tryed disabling some driver features then enabling them they had 0 impact on performance… CPU usage is still between 1 and 3 percentage.
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At this point im giving up and calling pfsense is still in beta access. Barely works and full with bugs which can't be fixed…
It is quite sad that an 3usd cheap router outperforms pfsense... -
Today i gave a try to 2.4 but seems same… Download speeds locked at 2mb/s and whatever i do i can't exceed 3% cpu usage...
I started using steam for testing speeds because speedtest.net started giving me download test error messages.
If anyone could help me, i would greatly appreciate it...