Very slow throughput - please help!!!

[weza]

Hello all.

Firstly - I'm new to pfsense, so please any ignorance I may display from time to time….

I'm running pfsense on a HP Proliant DL360 G7 server running ESXi v4.1 and the throughput/download speed and upload speeds are horribly slow.

If I connect a PC directly to the cable modem I get speeds of ~20Mbps.
When connected via pfsense - speeds drop to a fraction ~5.5Mbps.

PfSense info:
2.3.2-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Tue Jul 19 12:44:43 CDT 2016
FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5

When I first noticed this I turned off all logging, OpenVPN and removed any additional NAT settings etc... PfSense is running bare bones.
Turning everything else off on the server also makes no difference at all.
CPU on both server and pfsense show little if any CPU usage when running speed tests.
Both NIC's are set to auto negotiate.

Anyone have an issue like this before?
Really need some help with this.
Any idea what I could try?

Thanks in advance...

[johnpoz]

Why would you be running 4.1??  While prob not related freebsd 10.1 not supported on esxi until 5.5u2..

I run pfsense 2.3.2 on very old hp 40L microserver and get my full internet speed 75/10 that I pay for without any issue.

[weza]

HI Jonpoz.

Thanks for your reply.
The server already had other things on it so I just used it as is.
I can update it - will be a bit of a pain but that fixes this issue I'll be very happy.

Also I posted this is the wrong area - I will re-post in the virtualization area?

Thanks.

[johnpoz]

Well what else is running on it?  Who said it wasn't a borked setup in the first place then?  Maybe its got bad hardware? etc..