Slow speed from my new pfsense hardware
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So I've just bought a new hardware it's a china manufactured 4 nics with 2,5gbit.
I have a 1gbit connection but I only get about 500 mbit on speed test with cat cable connected.
I run the 2.6.0 pfsense version.
What can I do to increase the speed?
In pfsense I can see that I run 1000mbit full duplex on both Wan and Lan.
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@tjabas what's your duplex set to? Is it full or half?
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@JonathanLee it says full duplex on the dashboard
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@tjabas What NICs? What CPU, and CPU usage during the test?
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@tjabas said in Slow speed from my new pfsense hardware:
So I've just bought a new hardware it's a china manufactured 4 nics with 2,5gbit.
And the NICs are from wich vendor?
And the CPU is from wich vendor?I have a 1gbit connection but I only get about 500 mbit on speed test with cat cable connected.
With PPPoE in usage?
Wich driver is installed?I run the 2.6.0 pfsense version.
Wich CPU? Cores and HT?
What can I do to increase the speed?
Therefore you should answer the questions
from above.In pfsense I can see that I run 1000mbit full duplex on both Wan and Lan.
But you told above that there is 2.5 Gbit/s
ports in the hardware, why there is now
only 1 GBit/s shown?Can I somehow active the 2,5gbit connection?
In normal it should be running on 2.5 GBit/s
with auto negotiation otherwise it could be
also a negotiation missmatch. -
I'm quite new to this but I found some information about the router :
Fanless Soft Router Celeron J4125 Mini PC Quad Core 4x Intel i225 2.5G LAN HDMI VGA pfSense Firewall Appliance ESXI AES-NI
I'm using this one, it also have 8 gb/ram and 256gb/ssd
I hope this helps, best regards
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@tjabas said in Slow speed from my new pfsense hardware:
Fanless Soft Router Celeron J4125 Mini PC Quad Core
Should be strong enough!
I'm using this one, it also have 8 gb/ram and 256gb/ssd
So you will be not running out of space!
4x Intel i225 2.5G LAN
With some of them v1/v2 were problems before
but if this will be the v3 NICs it should be no problem there anymore. -
If both ends of the link are set to autonegotiate they should wind up at the highest common setting for speed and duplex. If the NICs on your pfSense device are 2.5G NICs but the link is showing at 1G, then check your physical connection. Make sure you are using good cables, make sure that whatever the other end is plugged into is capable of 2.5G or better.
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@mer thanks for your reply, I'm pretty sure that the fiberbox where the fibre cable is connected to is only 1gbit, so I guess that pfsense sees that and adjust the router port to 1gbit? Am I right?
I tried to change the Wan port of the pfsense router to 2.5gbit but then I lost internet connection on Wan, so I hade to change it back. -
@mer i have a cat 5 cable between fibre box and pfsense router.
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@tjabas You need both ends to support 2.5G, if the fiberbox port is only 1G then you are limited to 1G.
You should use at least Cat5e, preferably Cat6 cables.
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@mvikman thanks, well it might be a cat5e cable, I don't remember, I do get speeds up to 500mb/s, I think I read somewhere that cat 5 only support 100mb/s.
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I thoug wonder if I should replace that old cat5e to a cat 6 or 7, if I could get a better speed? The cable is about 50 meters long.
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@tjabas That would be my guess. Forcing the WAN port to only 2.5G would cause autonegotiation to fail, so no physical link.
For the LAN side, if you have a switch, try to find a switch that has 2.5G ports and see what happens.
I'm guessing you'd get 2.5 between the LAN port and the switch which would help get traffic "Off the LAN" quicker, but you'd still wind up with 1G out to the internet.
Longer cable distance you want to make sure you have the highest quality you can afford. -
@tjabas If you can, it’d probably be easier to temporarily move the router 50m and test with a short cable, than it would to string a new cable.
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They have a deal on Cat8 patch cables right now on Amazon I just got a couple.
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@tjabas said in Slow speed from my new pfsense hardware:
I thoug wonder if I should replace that old cat5e to a cat 6 or 7, if I could get a better speed? The cable is about 50 meters long.
100 MBit/s = 4 wires of the cable
"punched down or crimped"
1000 MBit/s = all 8 wires of the cable
"punched down or crimped"CAT.5 = 100 MBit/s
(But not seldom able to archive a full Gbit/s)
CAT.5e = 1000 MBit/s
Is made up to 100 meters for 1 GBit/sIf you want to change something
CAT.6A patchcables for devices and switches
S-FTP (1200MHz) (PiMf)
CAT.6A wall network sockets
Also for real 10 GBit/s
CAT.7 = 10 GBit/s installation cable (orange)
Latest standard into the wall cable channel (tube)I personally would say you should be getting
at first a 2.5 GBit/s switch that the bottleneck
will be gone. And then you could think about
getting qualifiet patch cables (devices) and
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If it's a cable problem I'd expect to see a large error count in Status > Interfaces.
Have you tested the connection actually provides 1Gbps using a client connected to it directly?
Steve
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@stephenw10
i have moved the router and i have tried with a speed test with 1 meter of cat5e cable between the router and fiber box, and i get about 30-50mbit better performace in that way, so about 600mb/s down and about 800mb/s up, and i have a 1gb/s line, so i guess that its all i get, maybe a cat6 cable could increase the speed a bit, but im not sure.i guess that i have to be pleased with the result.
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Yes, that could be the speed you are limited to by the line anyway.
You'd have to connect a client directly, bypass pfSense and retest, to know.
