Download speed varies by OS after setting up pfSense router with 2.4.5.
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@johnpoz Thanks! I appreciate the assistance!
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BTW - your not running any sort of security software on windows are you, antivirus, 3rd party firewall sort of stuff... Now I can not for the life of me where I posted that - arrghh..
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@johnpoz No, just the standard Windows Defender. I got the same results with it turned off as well.
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Can you post the output of
$ netsh interface tcp show global Querying active state... TCP Global Parameters ---------------------------------------------- Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : normal Add-On Congestion Control Provider : default ECN Capability : enabled RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled Initial RTO : 1000 Receive Segment Coalescing State : enabled Non Sack Rtt Resiliency : disabled Max SYN Retransmissions : 4 Fast Open : enabled Fast Open Fallback : enabled HyStart : enabled Pacing Profile : offRun
netsh interface tcp show globalIn a command prompt - prob has to do with your recv window, scaling and or autotuning
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@johnpoz said in Download speed varies by OS after setting up pfSense router with 2.4.5.:
netsh interface tcp show global
On the Windows box?
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yeah on the windows box, call up a cmd prompt and run that and post the output like I did
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TCP Global Parameters ---------------------------------------------- Receive-Side Scaling State : disabled Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : disabled Add-On Congestion Control Provider : default ECN Capability : disabled RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled Initial RTO : 1000 Receive Segment Coalescing State : enabled Non Sack Rtt Resiliency : disabled Max SYN Retransmissions : 4 Fast Open : enabled Fast Open Fallback : enabled HyStart : enabled Pacing Profile : off -
yeah your scaling is disable, and your auto-tuning is off..
Do this..
From an elevated cmd prompt, run cmd as admin type
netsh interface tcp set global rss=enabled
and then
netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=enabledThen show your globals again
netsh interface tcp show globalyou should see
Receive-Side Scaling State : enabled
Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level : normalThen do your speed tests again
edit: don't worry about being able to put it back, its simple as same command with disabled, etc. And we have post of what your settings were already ;)
I would show you the difference on mine - but I have 5 people streaming off my plex currently, and that is taxing my connection already ;)
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@johnpoz Yep! That did it! Just so I understand better for the future, is this something related to the innate configuration of pfSense and some of my devices are just already configured to work that way and the Windows devices are not by default?
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no not anything to do with pfsense - its windows thing, autotuning should be on by default with scaling - not sure why yours was disabled...
Had you run any sort of "tweaking" software or anything? I will have to do a bit of research - but I am pretty sure that is suppose to be on by default.
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@johnpoz Huh, okay, I must have just uncovered that during all the testing and stuff. I really appreciate the help!
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I know I just went over this somewhere in the last few weeks at most -- killing me that cant find where that was, might of been reddit or other forums I frequent ;)
Glad you got it sorted... You might want to turn on ECN as well.
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Was this windows 10 an upgrade from say 7? Or clean install?
Either way, when you find that your not getting what you expect for full speed, could to check that is enabled.. Here is some info about scaling..
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Clean install. The weird thing is that it is that way on multiple machines, but I suppose that might just be a fluke.
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hmmm - yeah pretty sure its suppose to be default.. Odd - will have to do some research on why it would be off out of the box.
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Thanks again and yeah I'd definitely be interested to know why they are that way.
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What nic do you have, and were you wireless and then moved to wireless. What driver on the nics? Windows default one? Or manufactures?
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What build of windows 10 are you running?
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It was wired connection, and the Windows default drivers.
Windows Build: 18363.720
Nic: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (7) I219-V -
Lurking by this thread, how old is the PC? I remember some issues several years ago and turning off RSS at a few clients. A quick search yielded articles like:
https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-ag/sln249772/how-to-resolve-performance-tuning-and-connectivity-issues?lang=en
https://support.docuware.com/en-us/knowledgebase/article/KBA-35306
https://serverfault.com/questions/726172/is-rss-receive-side-scaling-in-windows-considered-unstable
In other words could this be a legacy setting carried forward to Windows 10?
