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    Limited Bandwidth Speed from my OPT1 (Dual WAN Set-Up)

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      necronen
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      I have a dedicated pfSense Box with these following specs:

      AMD Sempron 3000+ (1.6Ghz)
      4 Gigabyte of RAM
      80 GB Hard Drive
      1 Onboard NIC - LAN(nfe0)
      2 D-Link PCI NICs - WAN(vr0) & OPT1(vr1)
      2 ISP having the same speed of 2mbps.

      I don't have any problems with regards to my WAN bandwidth speed.
      However, I'm wondering why I only get a max download speed bandwidth of 200kbps (0.2mbps) from my OPT1 (2mbps)?
      I've tried switching interfaces but still I got the same result (on the same ISP). But whenever I plugged my computer directly to the router, I am getting the real bandwidth.

      Any thoughts about this? Btw, I don't have any packages installed nor any modifications. Just firewall rules under LAN interface to route some ports to WAN and OPT1. TIA!

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        srk3461
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        The 2mbps you mentioned is it [Mbps or MBps]!? both are different!

        Mbps = Megabits Per second
        MBps = Megabyte Per second

        2Mbps = 250 KBps
        2MBps = 2048 KBps

        AFAIK you're getting the right speed!  :)

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          necronen
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          Ops! Sorry for the confusion.
          I was dealing too much of that KBps/Kbps & MBps/Mbps  :o

          I am referring to 2 MBps and I am only getting 200 KBps (2 Mbps / 20 KBps) download speed.
          And now, I found out that there's a notification coming from my box saying the NIC MAC Address was altered for some reasons.
          Is it a hardware problem?

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