WAN speed has increased, pfSense throughput remains at old speed

Chris. 0

My WAN speed has increased from 52 Mbit or so 72 Mbit. This has been confirmed by my ISP.

I am using a Vigor 130 modem, its statistics:

vdsl status
  ---------------------- ATU-R Info (hw: annex A, f/w: annex A/B/C) -----------
   Running Mode            :      17A       State                : SHOWTIME
   DS Actual Rate          : 72799000 bps   US Actual Rate       : 19006000 bps
   DS Attainable Rate      : 73275640 bps   US Attainable Rate   : 19085220 bps
   DS Path Mode            :        Fast    US Path Mode         :        Fast
   DS Interleave Depth     :        1       US Interleave Depth  :        1
   NE Current Attenuation  :       16 dB    Cur SNR Margin       :        1  dB
   DS actual PSD           :     6\. 7 dB    US actual PSD        :     6\. 9  dB
   NE CRC Count            :    15624       FE CRC Count         :    21564
   NE ES Count             :     9464       FE  ES Count         :    19240
   Xdsl Reset Times        :        0       Xdsl Link  Times     :        4
   ITU Version[0]          : b5004946       ITU Version[1]       : 544e0000
   VDSL Firmware Version   : 05-07-06-0D-01-07   [with Vectoring support]
   Power Management Mode   : DSL_G997_PMS_L0
   Test Mode               : DISABLE
  -------------------------------- ATU-C Info ---------------------------------
   Far Current Attenuation :       17 dB    Far SNR Margin       :        6  dB
   CO ITU Version[0]       : b5004946       CO ITU Version[1]    : 544eb206
   DSLAM CHIPSET VENDOR    : < IFTN >

If I connect a laptop directly to the modem and configure the PPPoE settings, I get 70 Mb or so throughput.

If I connect up the pfSense box, I get the old 50 Mb ish throughput. I've tested this using speedtest.py directly off the pfSense box. Does the same with various speedtest sites and usenet downloads.

speedtest.py
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration…
Testing from PlusNet (xx.xx.xx.xx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by NetWeaver (London) [1.28 km]: 13.766 ms
Testing download speed….............................................................................
Download: 49.86 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed................................................................................................
Upload: 17.56 Mbit/s

If did this before when I went from 40 Mb to 52 Mb, countless reboots and nothing then I upgraded the version, after the reboot it went up to the correct speed.

So I thought I'd update it to the 2.4 RC, but it remains at 50 Mb.

I've disabled snort. I don't have anything else running that would affect the speed, such as shaping etc.

It's an SG-2220 so should be more than capable enough of 70 Mb.

Any ideas please?

Chris. 0

Well, I thought I'd try another reboot, and voila, it's now at around 70 Mbit.

Can anyone shed some light on this behavior?

Guest

What's doing the PPPoE negotiation, the modem of pfSense? I have seen similar on my system. Re-initiating the PPPoE session corrects it.

Chris. 0

@marjohn56:

What's doing the PPPoE negotiation, the modem of pfSense? I have seen similar on my system. Re-initiating the PPPoE session corrects it.

pfSense is.

Guest

There you go… :)

I suspect it's something to do with the ip profile in the DSLAM that get's updated when the session is re-started.