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ProtectCli FW4B SpeedTest low

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    RadarG
    last edited by Apr 23, 2020, 1:51 PM

    I had a HPDL360 in a very hot garage. My speed tests were above 800Mb+ (on gig fiber connection) I have since switched over to a ProtectCLi FW4B and now I am only seeing speeds around 540MB. I switched on PowerD and it raised to around 600MB. The only difference that I can see between the two installs is that my interfaces went from bge to igb I am assuming I had broadcom NICs on the HP and now have Intel on my new one. How can I can back up to 800+ on this new firewall? Is there a setting that needs to be adjusted?

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      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by Apr 23, 2020, 2:00 PM

      How are you testing?

      What was the spec on the old machine?

      What is your WAN type?

      Steve

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        RadarG
        last edited by Apr 23, 2020, 3:19 PM

        Speedtest.net,fast.com, and DSLreports speed test. From a laptop hooked up to a switch on the LAN interface. WAN type is at&t fiber. the old system was pretty beefy. Dual 6 core CPU with 24GB of RAM the ProtectCLi is Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J3160 @ 1.60GHz 4 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s) AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (inactive) with 8GB

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          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by Apr 23, 2020, 4:08 PM

          Sorry I meant is your WAN DHCP or PPPoE etc?

          Check the output at the command line of top -aSH while you are testing. Is it using all the available CPU? What processes are using it?

          I assume you're running pfSense 2.4.5?

          Steve

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            RadarG
            last edited by Apr 23, 2020, 8:05 PM

            I did the test again. I used like 2% of the CPU. I am running version 2.4.4. I ran into the same issue with version 2.4.5. I was instructed to reinstall using the older version. no change

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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by Apr 23, 2020, 8:08 PM

              So is it DHCP or PPPoE?

              Who instructed you to install 2.4.4? I assume that's 2.4.4p3?

              It's impossible to believe you were using 2% CPU to pass 600Mbps with that CPU. So either it was not passing that or where you are checking the CPU usage is wrong.

              What does the output of top -aSH show?

              Steve

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                RadarG
                last edited by Apr 23, 2020, 8:20 PM

                user error around 20% it got as high as 27% for a split sec. The downgrade was recommenced by ProtectCli support, this pick will explain the setup. I am using the AT&T bypass method outlined here https://github.com/aus/pfattnetwork snip.JPG

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                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by stephenw10 Apr 23, 2020, 8:36 PM Apr 23, 2020, 8:36 PM

                  Ok, so basically still DHCP for what counts for throughput.

                  So what does top -aSH show when you are testing?

                  I imagine it will show at least 1 CPU core at 100% but it will also show what processes are using the CPU cycles.

                  Steve

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