"speedtest.net" working correctly?? Wifi Speed Higher than "speedtest-cli" on SG-1100???
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How can it be that librespeed.org shows on my home network wifi signal, via my iphone, to be around 200 Mbps download, and the command "speedtest-cli", directly from my SG-1100 (connected via cat 6a cable directly to my cable modem), shows the following below. Tests were run consecutively after each other. As a kicker, my ISP rated speed is 1 Gbps. Something is not adding up.
I have PfBlocker enabled but it can't be slowing my network down that much, can it? I see the specs for the sg-1100 are around 600 Mbps with firewall enabled.
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Comcast Cable (73.xxx.x.xxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by GoNetspeed (East New Haven, CT) [53.32 km]: 38.472 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 134.30 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 18.24 Mbit/s -
@BaseBallHat Speed tests are generally not known for their run-to-run accuracy, and certainly not for comparing against each other. For any attempt at apples-to-apples I'd compare speedtest.net against speedtest-cli, but even then you'll possibly be connecting to different servers.
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@BaseBallHat PF sense is optimized to flow traffic between interfaces and not so much from the GUI.. there are literally dozens of posts throughout this forum that explain this in some detail however you will probably never obtain accurate speed test on the firewall itself..
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But also on the 1100 running that test consumes considerable CPU cycles itself. You may simply be hitting a per core limit there.
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Thanks for all the feedback. While I've been able to optimize pfSense+ somewhat, which has helped incrementally, I'm thinking it's time for new hardware, given my new 1 Gbps ISP connection.
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Yup, you won't reach that through an 1100.