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    PfSense on Hyper-V - lower WAN speed

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      codera
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      Hi!

      I have a 300/300Mbps WAN connection from ISP.
      pfSense VM on Hyper-V gives me on speedtest.net only 150-180Mbps for download and 180-220Mbps for upload.
      VM has 2x vCPU and 4GB RAM, storage is on SSD. It is gen2 VM.
      This is a small deployment, because of this right now i have only one NIC on the PC and use VLAN´s with HP1810G switch.
      PC has Intel I219-V NIC, so i didnt find VMQ setting. I tried disabling it on Hyper-V VM NIC´s, but it didnt have any efferct.
      When doing speedtests pfSense CPU spikes to 30-40%

      Should i try changing anything or can i even get better wan speed from this deployment?

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        Wizard76 @codera
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        refer to this thread
        https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/ca93a8bc-500a-49e3-be6e-bf3407d8d798/hyperv-is-not-configured-to-enable-processor-resource-controls?forum=win10itprovirt

        i used bcdedit /set hypervisorschedulertype classic to fix the latency, intermittent, and bandwidth issues
        this is needed on win10 1803 and 1809

        also in pfsense under System/Advanced/Networking make sure
        Disable hardware checksum offload
        Disable hardware TCP segmentation offload
        Disable hardware large receive offload
        are checkmarked with certain networkcards such as realteks

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