Pfsense against speedtest.net

klajosh2

Hi,

I have a 8 Mbit/s down and 0.5 Mbit/s up ADSL connection. When the pfSense box is in between the connection I can measure
only 6 Mbit/s down and 0.5 Mbit/s up. When I remove pfSense box I can measure the correct speed. Is there any settings in
pfSense by default what limit one machine's maximum connection towards the internet?
for info: I already checked the duplex/speed settings and the MTU settings also. All look good.

thanks,

klajosh

sgtr

Hi,

By the way what services do you installed (eg: squid, squidguard). And what is your hardware specifications?

Regards,
SGTR

CS

Hi klajosh,
I think we have a similar problem. Please check my post which may give you some hints during the troubleshooting:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,56581.0.html

Cheers,
/CS

klajosh2

Hi,

let me start over this thread. since my problem has not been solved yet.
My pfsense box has 2 internet connection one LL and one ADSL.
I use multiwan configuration. Important users go over LL less important users go over ADSL. ;)
My problem is: dramatic bandwidth degradation on the ADSL link. With a PC directly
attached to the ADSL modem (type: dlink 360r) I have 8-10 Mbit/s download speed
but when I am behind the pfsense firewall (2.0.2 recently updated) I have 3-4 Mbit/s
download speed. I see bandwidth degradation on LL line also but not so huge as in case
of ADSL. (it is 1.8 Mbit/s behind pfSense versus 2 Mbit/s without pfsense).
interface settings:
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
mtu settings were checked with the ISP. It is 1492.
I am using the latest stable pfsense.
I checked: Disable hardware checksum offload.

Can anybody help regarding this problem?

Thanks,

klajosh!</full-duplex>

mejpickles

Hi

I'm new to Pfsense

Im on 10 Mb down 1Mb up

I had slow speeds as well

running on a atom D510, 4 GB of RAM
modem in bridge mode

Did have my MTU set at 1472 ( that's what i had my netgear modem set at after ping test )
At 1472 some pages would not load. I played around and left it black now all is fine.

so try changing it to 1500 or leave it blank.

Have you talked to your ISP about your SNR margin ? could speed up your line a bit. they said i could only get 6 to 7 Mbs download its sinking at 11 Mbs with a profile of 3 db

Mr. Jingles

Could it be that your hardware is too slow?

I am asking since another member here who has the same ISP as I have experienced slow downs in his VDSL after using a rather 'light weight' hardware configuration. I have a relatively powerful configuration (brand new stuff, Intel Celeron G1610, Intel mobo/NICS, fast WD hard disk) and I don't notice any speed losses at all.