What could limit our general speed?
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Hello,
For our company, we have a main gateway running pfSense 2.5.1.
We have two internet connections:
- vsdl (100/20) used as a backup plan
- fiber (200/200)
We've decided to upgrade our fiber to 500/500. When we connect directly in the router of the provider, we get 460/460.
But unfortunately, since this upgrade, we are unable to reach this actual speed on our LAN. The best we have is 240/280 after the pfSense.
What could be the cause of this issue?The hardware is CasWell car-2000.
We've removed the traffic shaper to avoid interfering with speed limit.
The firewall rules are quite simple and we only have a few basic.Thank for your help.
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@kevin-lemaire What do the ethernet ports show as on the Status -> Interfaces page reX
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@nogbadthebad I should have mentioned that. Sorry.
FIBRE0 Interface (opt5, re2) Status up DHCP up Relinquish Lease MAC Address IPv4 Address Subnet mask IPv4 Gateway IPv4 IPv6 Link Local MTU 1500 Media 1000baseT <full-duplex,master> In/out packets 423227616/645321159 (252.88 GiB/802.92 GiB) In/out packets (pass) 423227616/645321159 (252.88 GiB/802.92 GiB) In/out packets (block) 7146/1953 (427 KiB/133 KiB) In/out errors 0/0 Collisions 0 and LAN: LAN Interface (lan, re1.65) Status up MAC Address IPv4 Address Subnet mask IPv4 IPv6 Link Local MTU 1500 Media 1000baseT <full-duplex> In/out packets 643780449/416364760 (807.15 GiB/230.76 GiB) In/out packets (pass) 643780449/416364760 (807.15 GiB/230.76 GiB) In/out packets (block) 374114/67774 (63.34 MiB/7.18 MiB) In/out errors 0/0 Collisions 0 -
@kevin-lemaire It could be the Realtek interfaces.
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@nogbadthebad You think it might be based on the specs of our router?
The interfaces limit could be between 260 and 500?I'm used to 10/100/1000. I'm not used to other limits.
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@kevin-lemaire Do a search on the forum for Realtek.
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@kevin-lemaire said in What could limit our general speed?:
The hardware is CasWell car-2000.
What sort of performance is that capable of? A few months ago, I replaced an old HP desktop computer with the one described in my sig. On my 500/20 plan I was getting a bit above 500 Mb down, but with the Qotom, I got a significant improvement. In between those two, I had to use an old D-Link router and was only able to get around 35 Mb, so hardware matters.
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@jknott said in What could limit our general speed?:
significant improvement
OK. Thank you for sharing your experience. I'll order a new NETGATE 7100 1U BASE to see the difference.
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@JKnott @NogBadTheBad Thanks for your help.
Indeed, the hardware was limiting our bandwith.
Exact same configuration with the Netgate 7100 and we reach the 500/500 easily.
