On 12-9-2013 17:28, Adam Piasecki wrote: > First I'm almost certain this is a cable modem/provider problem. We have > a 20mb ethernet circuit that works fine with the same pfSense. > > We upgraded to a 100/10mb cable modem, when we put this on the WAN of > the pfsense, we are getting major packet loss during peak times, and > speed test sites that won't even load. Non-peak times we get no packet > loss, good speed tests (50+mb) > > The problem I'm having is that when we take the pfSense out and plug a > PC directly into the cable modem, the speedtests look fine and the > dropped packets go away. Both during peak times and non-peak. > > My thought is the number of packets going over the cable modem with the > pfSense is a lot greater then just one PC doing a speedtest, and the > cable modem can't handle it. We have about 100 clients behind the > pfSense trying to access the internet during peak times. The traffic > graphs on pfSense only indicate we are doing 5-10mbs download and 1-5 > upload, so we are no where near maxing out the cable modem bandwidth wise. > > I've checked wan ethernet settings 1gig full duplex, no collisions or > errors on the pfSense side. I don't see any problems in the log, we are > not doing any traffic shaping. > > The cable modem provider says if you plug a PC into the modem and you > get a good speed test, then it's your firewall. I tend to agree with > him, but the firewall works fine with the 20mb Ethernet circuit, and it > also works fine during non-peak times when not many users are on. > > Has anyone run into a problem like this before, or have any tips to > prove what could be the problem.
Try a different cable, no really. Gigabit ethernet can be picky, also try a longer. Cheers, Seth _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
