Breaking the 6MB Barrier

mikeisfly

You didn't mention how the two sites were connected? Are you using a site to site VPN? If you are what kind are you using, IPSec or OpenVPN? In my experience using IPSec resulted in similar performance issues. When I switched to OpenVPN I saw almost not penalty in terms of encryption and decryption and was able to upload at almost full provisioned speeds. Never did figure out what the issue was could have been a CPU thing. I'm running a AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core Processor BE-2350.

dmoadab

When I say "Windows transfer" is when I have the 2 machines connected via openvpn. I literally open 2 explorer Windows and drag and drop.

I am not using Sftp.

I have tried this with both openvpn, and with allowing specific IPs connect to specific ports, all with the same results.

Here's my config file (attached), with some stuff asterisked out.

Thank you all again as this is driving me CRAZY!

config.txt

Supermule

How long is the ping between the 2 sites and do you have packetloss on the connection?

Use colasoft ping tool to monitor and post in here.

While you are monitoring ping, then load your connection with traffic. See if packetloss increases. pls. post results.

stephenw10

Have you in some way proved the connection to be good? Somehow removed pfSense from the link and tested?
Speedtest.net is not a good test because it uses multiple connections to maximise the throughput.
Try simply downloading a laarge file from a known good source. I have no idea where you are so I can't recommend one but I use the Thinkbroadband test files at http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html here in the UK. If it's still limited at your client machine you can then try downloading it directly to the pfSense box:

root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(2): fetch -o /dev/null http://download.thinkbroadband.com/50MB.zip
/dev/null                                     100% of   50 MB 1961 kBps 00m00s

I notice in your config file that you have some traffic shaping options:

 <ezshaper><step1><numberofconnections>1</numberofconnections></step1> 
		 <step3><enable>on</enable>
			<provider>Asterisk</provider>
			<connuploadspeed>%</connuploadspeed>
			<conndownloadspeed>%</conndownloadspeed>
			<connupload>30</connupload>
			<conndownload>30</conndownload>
			<download>300</download>
			<downloadspeed>Mb</downloadspeed>
			<conn0upload>300</conn0upload>
			<conn0uploadspeed>Mb</conn0uploadspeed></step3> 
		 <step4><step2><downloadscheduler>HFSC</downloadscheduler>
			<conn0uploadscheduler>HFSC</conn0uploadscheduler>
			<conn0upload>1</conn0upload>
			<conn0uploadspeed>Gb</conn0uploadspeed>
			<conn0download>1</conn0download>
			<conn0downloadspeed>Gb</conn0downloadspeed>
			<conn0interface>wan</conn0interface></step2></step4></ezshaper>

Are you running asterisk? Did you set these up intentionally? I'm no expert in traffic shaping (which seem like a bit of a black art!) and I can't see how this would be limiting you but still….

Steve