Firewalla Gold - Overhead

Javier Prado

August 24, 2020 19:18

Hi team

Been enjoying my Gold for a few days, but noted that there's a bit of overhead on my bandwidth. I'm cabled with Cat7 all the way, and leveraging 10Gb even to some adapters via a Netgear 12 port 10Gb switch. Spectrum provides me 930Gbps for WAN, which usually tops at 910-920 at certain times. Testing again now with Gold as router, has dropped the top speed to 840-850. Any insight on what could be the issue? I thought this could handle line rate 1Gbps.

Thanks!

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Firewalla

August 24, 2020 19:30
How are you testing the speed? via a wired interface? and what's the app you are using for testing?

We have seen slowdowns if there are multiple country blocks in the system (around 20 or more). And not all country blocks are the same, so a combination of a few very fragmented (IP ranges) countries may add too much load to the filtering.
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Javier Prado

August 24, 2020 20:10
Testing from my PC (10Gb Base-T card to 10Gb Switch to Firewalla), Cat7 cabling to/from and no country blocking of any kind activated. Tested with Speedtest, DSL Reports and Xfinity test.
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Javier Prado

August 25, 2020 02:45
Changed cable to Cat8, and port to 2, and then 3. No change, still can't pass 850Mbps.
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Craig Richard

August 26, 2020 00:16
Something must be up locally as I have a CAT6 cable and from my home PC, hardwired, I get 960.
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Javier Prado

August 26, 2020 00:18
The thing is that when I took the Gold out of the picture and went back to my previous setup (Nighthawk router), it went back to 900Mbps and up.
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Firewalla

August 26, 2020 00:37
Do you have PPPoE? or it is a straight ethernet connection to your ISP?
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Javier Prado

August 26, 2020 00:38
Straight to Spectrum
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Firewalla

August 26, 2020 01:28
Just created a ticket, can you send over the support access? we probably need to look inside and see if there is anything that may not be right.
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Javier Prado

August 26, 2020 01:36
Sure, do I send it to help@firewalla.com ? What's the ticket number I should reference?
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Firewalla

August 26, 2020 01:39
Another thing, how many different tests did you do? Our experience with Xfinity for example (same for dslreport, and speedtest), the tests are better early in the morning and get worse throughout the day. So, if you can do a series of tests.
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Javier Prado

August 26, 2020 01:50
Test in the morning, noon, evening and late night. With 3 different portals and several Speedtest servers. I'd say about 40-50 tests all together.

Please let me know where to send the Remote login info. Thanks!
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Javier Prado

August 26, 2020 02:05
Just sent you the info via e-mail (request 19933).

Thanks!
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