Performance with widget Speedtest by ookla
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Is running the speedtest widget inside pfsense the best place to run this?
(I was thinking this would give the best results)When I ran the tests 5-6 times the results would be all over the place from 30% to 100% of ISP speed. When I ran the test from a browser on a machine connected directly to the pfsense box, the speeds were lower, but the results were more consistent.
Any ideas what could be going wrong? Thank You!
During the speed tests, the max cpu load I have seen only goes to 19%.
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@pfsense1921 said in Performance with widget Speedtest by ookla:
(I was thinking this would give the best results)
That has been debunked years ago.
The code (python script) "steels" CPU cycles that could have been used for packet transfers from NIC to NIC.
While where here, for good measurement, you shouldn't even have the pfSense GUI open in a browser while doing speed tests, as the dashboard demands already uses a lot of CPU power just to show and keep itself updated. -
Thank you! I Understand activities use resources, but if we have 50%+ cpu idle, probably not causing a problem? Or is that misleading?
I have the exact same hardware pfsense firmware/software all with the same speedtest gui in 3 different ISP/locations.
One location I have ATT Dedicated Fiber (new Install) that basically has zero network load but speed tests are all over the map (and large majority of tests are below the 90% minimums)
The other 2 locations have a lot of network traffic, have shared fiber and they are much more stable than the ATT dedicated fiber.
Since I have those three comparisons, I feel that proves the issue is with the ATT Dedicated fiber service. Yes or No / Agree disagree? Thanks!