PFsense Not Showing Speeds Paid For

bennyc

Just to give a heads-up:

I run here similar setup here in the office.

Motorola / CV6181E (DOCSIS 3.0)
Watchguard x1250e, celeron M cpu (original), MEM upgraded to 2GB, running pfSense 2.1.5 nano on CF.

The modem is directly connected to sk0 (port "0")

No issue hitting my download limit (200Mbps) on a vm when no other traffic is going on, and that is with SNORT running… So I don't think it is to blame on the red box, or at least not in its default config.

Wild guessing here, but did you try swapping back to the default RAM in your box? (it would be my approach to go back to the original HW situation... if that is possible of course)

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stephenw10

@ghostshell:

WAN 1000baseT <full-duplex>/ LAN 1000baseT <full- (does="" not="" show="" <full-duplex="">)</full-></full-duplex>

This could be a clue here. What does ifconfig show? Perhaps you would normally connect the laptop via a switch and are connecting it directly just for this test? That could show up a hardware incompatibility that isn't normally an issue. Are there any errors or collisions showing in Status: Interfaces:

Failed Ethernet speed negotiation is normally toward the top of my list of suspects when throughput is throttled.
To determine whether the throttling is at the WAN or LAN interface I would normally try to run a test from the pfSense box itself. To do that you need to know a test file that can max your WAN bandwidth. Here is a result using a file got from http://www.cloudtestfiles.net/

[2.1.5-RELEASE][root@pfsense.fire.box]/root(1): fetch -o /dev/null http://109.123.87.183/speedtest.256mb
/dev/null                                     100% of  256 MB 8444 kBps 00m00s

You will probably need a different address/file.

Steve

kejianshi

I'm with stephen on this one.
If you have been using a switch between pfsense and the laptop, try a different switch or no switch.

If you have not been testing with switch but have been directly connecting to pfsense lan, try it with a switch.

Also, MAYBE try it with a different cable on the lan. Sounds like you can overcome this.

ghostshell

@kejianshi:

I'm with stephen on this one.
If you have been using a switch between pfsense and the laptop, try a different switch or no switch.

If you have not been testing with switch but have been directly connecting to pfsense lan, try it with a switch.

Also, MAYBE try it with a different cable on the lan. Sounds like you can overcome this.

Fingers crossed!

Whats a good site to test with. full-duplex shows up after a sec when going to the main status page, on the terminal all interfaces show full-duplex while the webgui takes a sec to show all.

EDIT: i am trying http://www.cloudtestfiles.net/ now

Derelict

I'd do the same test that's giving you the better speeds with the pfSense out of the picture.

ghostshell

@Derelict:

I'd do the same test that's giving you the better speeds with the pfSense out of the picture.

cloudtest 256MB file, 15 sec, cant see the speed in firefox dammit!

ghostshell

Unplugged all from the network except my laptop directly connected.

1000baseT <full-duplex>The <full- was="" due="" to="" it="" showing:<br="">1000baseT <full-<br>duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>

then after about 2 sec it shows

1000baseT <full-duplex>in the web gui.

Current speed test shows improvement: 130.98/111.78

Time to call support I think since if I connect directly to the modem i get the same.</full-duplex></full-<br></full-></full-duplex>