pfSense slow internet throughput!
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Hello everyone
I'm just just install a fresh new pfsense 2.4.3 on a vmware workstation 14 virtual machine, it has 2 nics ports one for lan and the other for the wan, each nic port is gigabit capable and connect to the virtual machine through a bridge connection, the pfsense runs on a Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770S CPU @ 3.10GHz
4 CPUs: 2 package(s) x 2 core(s)
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active)
and 8gb of ram
no packages installed, just a clean install of pfsense, my isp is at&t with the gigabit internet service, I setup the at&t gateway with ip passthrough to the pfsense.
So, having said that, the problem is, the fastest download and upload speed I can get is 200Mbs, not even close to the 940Mbs that the internet connection has.
I tried several things, that i have found in the forum for tune up the pfsense but still doesn't get any better.
Any help or clue will be appreciate
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Hi,
Did you test pfSense without using a VM ?
All NIC's are on auto-select speed ? Hardware offloading is off ? -
Thanks Gertjan
No, I don't have a spare computer to test pfsense
Yes, all NIC's are on auto-select speed and yes hardware offloading is off
And also I prove it the other way around and still has low speed. -
I followed the instructions, use VMXNET 3 adapters and have installed the Open-VM-Tools package.
After that I get around 500-900 Mbps (at times limited by other things) on far less impressive hardware.
Edit: Oh sorry, I didn't notice you used VMware Workstation instead of ESXI. Why is that, what's the reason for the installation?
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Check Status -> Interfaces for In/Out Errors, if any replace your cable.
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I get slow speeds on bare metal (ASRock J3455b and quad intel nic) with pfsense 2.4.3. It works fine on 2.3.5..... Maybe worth a try?
(update: also works fine on 2.4.4rc)
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OMG, this network kills me... I tried tofix it somehow, but nothing helped, so i changed the provider.
