SG-1100 Throughput Test
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Not sure what you're talking about since the SG-1100 was never supported by anything older than pfSense 2.4.4-p1.
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Maybe he is confusing the SG-1100, with the 1000?
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I've read posts from people claiming to be running an old Dell desktop with a couple of gigabit cards, running pfSense 2.3.*, getting in the high 990 Mbps. I can plug my laptop straight into the modem and get the same. High 990 Mbps, no problem. When I put the Netgate SG-1100 between my laptop and the modem, my speeds go down to 250 Mbps or lower.
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@JInx-IT you installed 2.3 on a sg -1100?
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@JInx-IT said in SG-1100 Throughput Test:
getting in the high 990 Mbps.
Nonsense - since not possible to get that on a gig interface... Do the math yourself..
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That's with no traffic shaping or anything. It's just the basic setup.
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Dude you have been show simple out of the box the SG-1100 doing high 800's if your only seeing 250ish you got something wrong with your testing method or your hardware in the path of your test.
You have yet to show your test method. Sorry but you aint going to see 990s on any gig interface. your going to be in the 940's as max..
Duplicate the testing that hbauer did above.
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I never said I am running 2.3.*, I'm running what came on it, which is 2.4.4-p2. My question was, and still is, how to achieve Gigabit speeds with an SG-1100, when it looks like the hardware itself can't support anything more than 250 Mbps. I'm hoping I'm wrong, so I'm here looking for proof that I'm configuring something incorrectly. Why can my laptop to the modem get Gigabit speeds, but a basic config in the SG-1100 maxes out at 250 Mbps? The answer, I feel, is in looking at the differences between my configuration, and somebody's who has the correct config in their SG-1100, and by correct config, I mean somebody who is getting Gigabit speeds.
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@JInx-IT I am just a netgate customer and I can confirm the results posted above. The hardware can do it without any changes to the standard config. I suggest to open another topic with more details about your modem. I suspect that there is a need for some changes.
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Dude out of the box it will do gig speeds... You have been shown this and confirmed by multiple people..
Benchmarks are listed here as well
https://www.netgate.com/blog/netgates-new-sg-1100-punches-way-above-its-weight.html -
The modem is setup the way we have had things setup for the last 4 years worth of using a pfSense router, which we traditionally ran off of a SuperMicro system. Pretty much all of our clients are running one, and they aren't going much past 200 Mbps. When we went up to over 400 Mbps, we noticed the router was bottlenecking the speeds, because bypassing the router and running a laptop straight to the modem produced the advertised speeds. The same is holding true with the SG-1100. Doing a speedtest from the router maxes out at 250 Mbps, but taking the router out, and plugging the laptop directly into the modem, the laptop gets Gigabit speeds. What we need, is a router we can suggest to our clients that will get Gigabit speeds. The issue is, it looks like we will have to use some cast off desktops to get that going, instead of using a professional hardware package. What I'm hoping for is that I'm missing something in the config settings that is impeding the throughput. I would love to offer this box as a Gigabit solution.
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@johnpoz So, are you saying that it's a defective SG-1100? Because, out of the box, it's not getting gig speeds. Not even close.
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@JInx-IT Do you have a change to try my setup with iperf connected to a switch? If this is better then you know its a configuration thing. if not open a ticket at netgate
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@JInx-IT said in SG-1100 Throughput Test:
it's not getting gig speeds. Not even close.
And you have yet to show you can actually do a valid test... Lets see your test method and showing that your client and server can actually talk doing gig, etc.
hbauer gave exacting details of testing done showing 880's
If after showing valid test methods and default config - then yeah open a support ticket.
Doing a speed test to some internet site with some client behind pfsense is NOT a valid test method.
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What I use for speedtest from pfSense and any other Linux based platform is speedtest-cli. If that's not accurate enough, I am certainly open to new methods.
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@JInx-IT If you are testing it from the firewall, that is not accurate. You need to test from a device behind the firewall to a public device on the other side.
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I get close to she same results whetherI'm running it from the firewall or the laptop behind the firewall, where the big jump comes is if I remove the firewall and configure the laptop to run straight off the modem. What do you recommend I run instead of speedtest-cli?
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You could try using iperf/iperf3 to test from local to remote. As noted your speeds are less then anticipated for the device; more than likely the configuration/testing methods are not right.
The more information use can share the better someone can assist you in resolving your problems.
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@JInx-IT
Connect one device to WAN, and run iperf in server mode on it. Connect one device to LAN and let it run an iperf test to the server you just setup on the WAN device.Also make sure there are no limiters/traffic shaping configured, especially if you restored a config backup from a previous device. Make sure you are not testing over a VPN connection, that will reduce throughput considerably.
Also if your Internet connection is using PPPoE that might be a limiting factor too.
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@hbauer said in SG-1100 Throughput Test:
iperf3
I'll look into iperf again. I skimmed over it and moved on because the closest servers it listed were on the other side of the country from me. I didn't see, or think of, an option to create your own test server on the WAN. I'll probably set that up tomorrow. I wasn't able to restore from backup to the sg-1100, so that's not a factor and I'm not using a VPN or PPPoE for any of this. I'll post my results after I get everything set up and run it both ways.
