pfSense 2.6.0 on PC Engines Alix APU 4D4 - fiber WAN slow Download (Upload at expected speed)
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@Dobby_ Thanks Dobby - yes, this was also my understanding after reading several posts that on pfSense 2.5.0 and 2.6.0 no tunable are needed to provide 400+ Mbit speed on each port.
I am now on Vendor: coreboot / Version: v4.16.0.3, so I am going to flash the new bios now and let you know. BRB. -
@keson So, I have downloaded 4.19.0.1 and flashed, rebooted. Same result:
openspeedtest.com/results/60007774
just in case - this is the speed when I plug the pc directly to the Mikrotik which is next to the fiber endpoint:
openspeedtest.com/results/60002184 (test done yesterday)I am giving up now. Later I will take another APU board and set it fresh with devel 2.7 version of pfSense and also I plan to take an intel NUC and set it with USB NIC as LAN and use the built in 2.5Gbit as WAN and test pfSense 2.6 on that too, but now I gotta work. Will post here my results over the weekend if I find something.
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How are you testing?
If you only test from the PC behind the APU the issue could be on the LAN NIC.
You might try running a test from pfSense directly so it only tests the WAN. The result won't be as high as a through test but it will show up any limit at 30Mbps.
Steve
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@stephenw10 Hi Steve, you are right, it is good to do several tests. That is also what I did. I would not dare to use the time of people here without really doing all I could think of :). I have downloaded the speediest-cli on pfsense and used that and the result is as you might have guessed are completely opposite...
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from O2 Czech Republic (88.103.226.45)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by suec//dacor GmbH (Frankfurt) [407.96 km]: 30.537 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 143.63 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 7.50 Mbit/sThe thing is that the Fiber optics was provided to several neighbors at the same day so I was doing the setup for 3+ households and used the same equipment everywhere - they all have Mikrotiks as that is what I recommended them as I know they are affordable and will work well. And all of them get nice 250/250. And when I take the same Mikrotiks device to my home and test it - I get the same nice results - si dare to say all the lines are equal and the testing HW is also performing the same in all 4 households.
But for the reason that I have several rules set on my home pfSense and OVPN and HA proxy for cert offloading, I do not want to give up pfSense - also mainly because I simply love it. So of course, if I would use the RB2011UiAS-IN which I have now at the end of the Fiber, I would also get the 250/250 (which I really do), but I want to troubleshoot it and find the cause.I have also tested several computers - HP with linux, Mac - they all give me the same result 30/250 - mornings, evenings, weekends... Pretty stable results. And I tested three different online test web apps and also downloaded an ISO files - woudl never get over 3,5 MB/s - which is roughly the 31 Mbit I can see on tests.
I will try now again a fresh pfsense on APU 2C2 with latest bios and external USB Gbit NIC :)
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Hmm, so no download restriction in that test. That's using a PPPoE WAN? or behind the Mikrotik?
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@stephenw10 This one was done with Mikrotik in between. I will replug the cable to PPPoE directly later and connect to the other interface where I have still the PPPoE setup - I keep them both so that I can swap the setup easier. Will inform you.
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@keson said in pfSense 2.6.0 on PC Engines Alix APU 4D4 - fiber WAN slow Download (Upload at expected speed):
- I keep them both so that I can swap the setup easier. Will inform you.
Only the wan connected device should be doing PPPoE
and the other one is not needing it! PPPoE will only
single CPU core threaded.one core = one queue
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@Dobby_ of course. One wan uses pppoe and second uses dhcp from the mikrotik. Just to save time reconfiguring wan interface between pppoe and dhcp standar network. As the APU has 4 lan ports i can waste two ports for experiments. All clear
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Dear everyone reading this post. I have to admit I have been wrong and both pfSense and PC Engines are the best of its kind.
To make my explanation short, it was my mistake, I am now running on nice 250/250 without any intermediate device (Mikrotik) - directly from GPON to pfSense gb0 where I have VLAN set and used for PPPoE as expected, all basic settings.
The cause of my limited speed dates back several years when I set TRAFFIC SHAPER to limit kids as at that time whole household was connected on 5/1 line so it was to prevent some extensive misuse. And I completely forgot this section, havent seen it for years, till today when I took an old APU2, set it out of the box and ...it worked like a charm. So I installed all packages to exclude any package to introduce such limitation and as I didn't find any issues I went screen by screen comparing my recent configuration with out of the box until I got to FIREWALL / TRAFFIC SHAPER where I had some wizard made rules. Deleted and all of a sudden everything works.
I am deeply sorry for anyone spending time on my post, thanks ou all - you are all the best community.
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No worries. We've all done that.
Glad you got it sorted.
