Gigabit ISP not giving Gigabit speed

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Abbas Jaffar Ali

• March 10, 2022 11:02

I have a Gigabit (download) connection and using a wired connection to my PC, Firewalla Gold is only giving me 550-650Mbps. I have an ASUS router, an Alien router and a Huawei router and each one of those gets me 900+Mbps speed on speedtest on the same PC with the same wired connection. 

My connection is PPPoE and I've noticed that sometimes with FWG starts at about 800Mbps download but almost immediately falls down to 600Mbps range- as if something is holding it back. What could that be?

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  Tom Jarvis

  • April 02, 2022 16:39

  Are you able to SSH into the Firewalla Gold, and then run:

  ./Speedtest

   

  My setup is similar:

  Firewalla Gold as Router. 

  Amplifi Alien (main) and Mesh Point as Wireless AP (in Bridge Mode)

   

  If I connect to the Amplifi for speed test, I get Maximum 500Mbps.  If I SSH to the Firewalla Gold and run Speedtest CLI from there, I get Gigabit speeds.  Support had previously had remote access to improve things, and prioritised the ethernet port which the Amplifi connected on.  This got the speedtest to 700ish. But since had updates and doesn't look like the settings have persisted as it's back around 500.  

   

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