HP dc7700 (C2Duo) w/On Board Gigabit NIC + TP Link Gigabit = Max 100Mbps?

[samyboyz]

Hi,

I'm only able to get a reading of 100Mbps Up/Down on a 250Mbps Up/Down plan with Bell DSL on an HP dc7700 (C2Duo) w/On Board Gigabit NIC (WAN) + TP Link Gigabit (LAN) & NO MODEM / Direct Connection to DSL service via VLAN.

I was wondering what could cause this when both the WAN & LAN NICs are Gigabit…

Thanks,

[HaOsLsE]

I would venture to guess it's your TP Link NIC.  I've used/tried TP Link and Realtek gigabit nics on my ATT Gigapower and they both can't keep up with any of my intel cards.  Now that internet is getting so fast, I will strictly stay with Intel unless they have issues down the road, which I don't expect.  With realtek and TP Link I got around 500-600mbps up/down…all my Intel Nics are ~950mbps up/down.

I am also running on a core 2 duo (old dell optiplex 760 I think)

BIOS Vendor: Dell Inc.
Version: A05
Release Date: 08/17/2009
Version 2.3.4-RELEASE-p1 (i386)
built on Fri Jul 14 14:53:03 CDT 2017
FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p19

CPU Type Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz
2 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)

[stephenw10]

Sounds a lot like one of those NICs is not connecting at Gigabit.

Check the Status > Interfaces page. Do the NICs have link LEDs to indicate 1Gbps? Does whatever you're connecting to show the same speed?

Steve

[HaOsLsE]

oh good point Stephen…OP...check what Stephen said...make sure you have the following: (even if it's connected at 1000, make sure you have full-duplex too...half duplex can cause major slow downs)

Under..
Status
Interfaces
Media  1000baseT

[samyboyz]

Hi Guys,

I have gigabit on the LAN side (full duplex) but not sure on the WAN side..

I took a snapshot which is attached!


[Guest]

@Sarven:

Hi Guys,

I have gigabit on the LAN side (full duplex) but not sure on the WAN side..

I took a snapshot which is attached!

PPPoE is going to perform like crap, something you can check is MPD (or whatever the PPPoE Daemon is called) and configure it to enable the debug pages (it has those!). If you have PPP or Ethernet errors, those won't be displayed on the interface page in pfSense, but they will be displayed on the MPD page.

[stephenw10]

PPPoE will be limiting, you only get one thread doing anything. But on a Core2Duo you only have two cores anyway.

Try running:

ifconfig -a

to see what the parent NIC is doing.

You might try swapping the WAN and LAN assignments also. One of those NICs/drivers might perform better for PPPoE.

Steve