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      OverrRyde
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      Hi everyone,

      today i upgraded my cable service to gigabit and trying to actually reach those speeds behind a pfsense box (self made). Currently seing about 540-550Mbit when doing speedtest from Windows 10 when going through the pfsense box. I did the same test plugged directly into the modem and was hitting about 950-960Mbit which is what i expected.

      in pfsense, i run speedtest at the cli and reports back anywhere between 500 and 850 Mbit.

      Box itself was built on the follows:
      -AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
      -4gb ram
      -on board nic + tp-link PCI nic (both gigabit of course)

      when i run the dslreports speedtest, i do see the CPU usage spike up to about 70-80%, which i suspect is normal, but thought i should mention it just in case. i have also tried the test with and without pfblockng running just in case, same results.

      Any info would be appreciated!
      thanks in advance!

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        Cool_Corona
        last edited by

        You wont get more out of the box. Sorry.

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          OverrRyde @Cool_Corona
          last edited by

          @Cool_Corona what's limiting? The onboard nic? Cpu?

          Thanks

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            Cool_Corona @OverrRyde
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            @OverrRyde said in Gigabit speed help:

            @Cool_Corona what's limiting? The onboard nic? Cpu?

            Thanks

            CPU

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