Pfsense Internet Download Slow

Derelict

If you are not doing a LAGG you don't have to worry about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregate_group

What you are seeing in that graph would be indicative of irregular sending by the sender, or possibly something going on on the receiver, not anything on the firewall. Maybe something upstream starts to limit you or any one of 100 different things.

Rickinfl

@herman said in Pfsense Internet Download Slow:

@Rickinfl My graph shows MB's (MegaBytes). The problem is that my download is not consistent as you can see in the graph. It suddenly drops en is very inconsistent.

Maybe very stupid to ask but what do you mean with LAGG?

Regards,
Herman

LAGG. I have a I350-T4 I took all 4 ports and created a LAGG which combines all 4 ports into 1. So basically I have a 4 GIG link. On my Cisco 3750G I created a LACP Trunk which is basically a LAGG, but in Cisco words. This allows me to send VLANS across to the Pfsense box. I also created VLANS in Pfsense.

Herman

@rickinfl Okay... I need the ports also for the vm's. The SuperMicro board has also 2 Intel nics on board.

But any idea whats going on with the speed?? Before I migrated from the TMG 2010 I've had an stable download.

Regards,
Herman

Derelict

@rickinfl said in Pfsense Internet Download Slow:

It's not going through the LAGG right now I have it connected to a single card. I did get 300 Down when I hard wire connected my laptop so it seems to be working. Also set WAN to 1000 Full Duplex.

I would leave that at Default (no preference, typically autoselect)

By running the speed test on the firewall and getting Download: 284.77 Mbit/s you have established it is not the WAN interface.

moikerz

@rickinfl said in Pfsense Internet Download Slow:

LAGG. I have a I350-T4 I took all 4 ports and created a LAGG which combines all 4 ports into 1. So basically I have a 4 GIG link.

(Pedantic) Err, no. You still have a 1Gbps link for a single flow, but you can handle up to 4 single flows simultaneously at 1Gbps, and anything above 4 flows will start to share bandwidth. But you'll never get 4Gbps in a single flow.

And remember (I'm just stating, not accusing) - if you have your graph at MBps instead of Mbps, then a 300Mbps link should show up as roughly 35MBps.

Grimson

If you have 4 or less LAN segments you can also use them as individual interfaces instead of a LAGG with VLANs. This way you don't have to deal with possible issues in the LAGG driver and reduce the complexity of the config.

Herman

Hi guys,

Looked around a bit for myself. Would like to receive your thoughts about this.
Using Sabnzbd for large UseNet downloading. I’ve add 3 UseNet server with each 16 connections. Playing around with this made me conclude the following. Enable just one UseNet pay server with only 4 connections is giving me the best performance. About 35MB generally over the whole download. There are some moments that the speed drops to 0 but then it resumes to the speed of approximately 35 MB. Does this make any sense to you guys? I’d like to understand what’s going on here.

Like noted before I use a HP 1810-24G managed switch. There are tons of settings that can be made. My knowledge is not that far to understand all of them. For example the Jumbo Frames, should they be enabled or disabled? For now I enabled them to see what it does to the performance. The link speed of the switch is now ‘auto”. Should I set it to “1000 Full Duplex”?

Any thoughts of how to configure the switch to get the best performance? All tips would be appreciated!

Kind regard and thanks for helping already,
Herman

Derelict

Maybe they are throttling with you in some way when you start increasing the number of connections. Maybe your client starts having problems. I cannot see pfSense caring one way or the other.

You shouldn't need to do anything on the switch.

i wouldn't touch jumbo frames in your environment. Leave everything 1500.

Herman

@derelict

Thank you @Derelict for the reply. I will turn the jumbo frames back to off. I have no clue if the news hosting provider (https://www.newshosting.com/) is throttling when I increase the connections. My peasant wit would say the more connections the more speed you can gain? Well probably that seems not to be the case.

What would be the advice in using connections? Just use one server with one connection? Why does the provider offer 30 connections in the first place?

Kind regards,
Herman

Herman

Also found this link https://www.newshosting.com/usenet/usenet-connections/. This explains how connections works. Just didn't figure out how to test the ideal amount of connection in combination with a speed test...

Just wanted to share this aswell.

Herman