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Download speed not matching speed test4/11/2024 So my question is, what’s the point of getting ultra fast internet when it hardly ever gets anywhere near the speed promised by the ISP? So it would seem that there is a somewhat inverse relationship between the effective internet speed and distance. I find that when I use one of the many speed-testing sites, I get about the same results if I specify the same server my ISP uses when I choose servers which are much further away (like another continent), the speed sometimes slows to a crawl. I’ve read that unless the WiFi signal is very strong, you never really get the advertised internet speed.īut my question is about the following: my ISP recommends one measure the speed using one specific link and their web page. And that speed is measured downloading a large file from a server that is some 100 km from where I live. When I connect to the router via a LAN cable or I have the laptop right next to the router, I get 80 megabits per second, which is close enough for me. The maximum speed that I can get, however, is about 30 megabits per second through WiFi. Its also not a bad idea to test to multiple different speedtest servers - some don't always give you full numbers, etc.Through my ISP, I’ve contracted for 100 megabits per second of internet speed. I have 500/50 connection and get my full speeds. While I don't have your hardware, as mentioned pfsense is more than capable of much higher speeds. A clean install for sure would make sure there is not shapers or limiters that is for sure - especially if you have a basic vanilla setup and don't have to load a previous config for all your firewall rules and packages, etc. And being on current allows for more interest in figuring out what might be going wrong as well. You should really reboot the cable modem when you change devices (that use a different mac).īut upgrading/clean install of current is not going to hurt your performance. So plugging a laptop or pc directly into the cable modem is a valid test. You actually checked? Users quite often forget that they were playing with them at some point while back, etc.Īlso - cable modems normally requite a reboot when switching devices. The upload not going up seems odd - you sure you don't have any sort of limiters or shapers setup. Its best to do speedtesting from from a device behind pfsense. Thanks in advance for ideas & while some people find running speedtest on pfsense directly of some use - and not saying it can not be useful.īut pfsense is not meant to be a server or client - its quite likely that the speedtest running on pfsense might not give you what it can handle as a router/firewall. Will upgrading to version 2.5.1 or 2.6.0 make any difference? I don't think it's a system resources limitation since there's no sign of the hardware being maxed out at any time, either in daily operations or when conducting speed tests. I've been using pfSense for years, but is there some incredibly basic config option that I'm somehow missing which has to be tuned for higher speeds on the external interface? System load, CPU, & memory usage never seem to increase much, even when running speed tests. Service was upgraded to double the download bandwidth, and then we discovered the discrepancy. The previous ISP speed was only around 100Mbps, so this hadn't been an issue before. Hardware is a ProtectLI Vault, 4-core 1.9GHz Intel CPU, 8GB of RAM & 120GB SSD, one LAN interface, one WAN interface, both reporting they are connected to 1000baseT full-duplex ethernet. With pfSense connected to the cable modem and the laptop behind, speed tests drop to 100-110Mbps download and 8-10Mbps upload. With a laptop direct wired to the cable modem, the speed tests are showing 210-220Mbps download and 18-20Mbps upload. I guess this is a stupid n00b question, but I'm running into issues getting a pfSense 2.4.4 to recognize an internet service upgrade.
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