Hello OPNsense Community!
I'm posting here, for help since I couldn't really find my answers... My Problem is the following:
Randomly, my AP's speed suddenly went down really bad.. I've read some similar topics here, but there, I couldn't really find the solution I've been looking for, since many post said like "it's obviously the AP's problem, not OPNsense related" and so on... I could accept it, but the fact, that it was good before, and had a decent speed, and now it's slow...
Anyways, too much talking... I'm new, to posting here, but I'll try to write as many infos about my setup, that I could think of, that can help here...+ I'll upload here my LAN speed test and my Speedtest on connected wireless to my AP..
I'm connected to my AP with 6Ghz, and relatively not far away.. there are only 1 SSID not near here, so that can't be an issue suddenly..
My AP's info is the following:
TP-Link Deco XE200
-it's WIFI 6E
-has 10GBs eth port on it
-Can do the following speed
2,5GHZ - 1148 Mbps
5GHZ - 4804 Mbps
6GHZ - 4804 Mbps
So in total, around 10,8 Gpbs
I'll link it's page here: ( https://www.tp-link.com/hu/home-networking/deco/deco-xe200/ )
My Speedtest on LAN was the following:
Download - 1504Mbps
Upload - 290Mbps
My Speedtest on the Acces Point at 6Ghz was the following:
Download - 94Mbps
Upload - 93,8 Mbps
That device is end of life on the US website...
The fact that the eth port is 10Gb capable does not mean that it's effectively running at that speed.
You should be able to check that on either end. Maybe even light indicators.
Swap cables. Test between 2 machines on your LAN. Test from a machine directly wired to OPN.
Process of elimination...
EricPerl is correct. First thing I noticed in your post is that it looks as one of the devices has their NIC negotiating at 100Mb speed. Check the cabling and reboot (power off/on) both devices.
Checked out everything... all my NIC and everything should be in the right duplex, even checked the port's LEDs, and they are all doing green... However, now, even on LAN... it's still somehow max out at 100Mb... Recent Speedtest for e.g. is 94,6mb download and upload...
At OPNsense for e.g.. my interface info is the following:
Media 10Gbase-T <full-duplex>
Media (Raw) Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)
Line Rate 10.00 Gbit/s
please post the results in code brackets of $ifconfig done on your OPN. Mask private identifiers you are not comfortable sharing.
Have you checked that the connection is indeed via 6 GHz on the client you are testing with? If your device chooses to switch frequencies, e.g. because you go into another room where 5/6 Ghz cannot reach, it might switch to 2.4 Ghz and stay there. Also, all WiFi bands are ISM, so that throughput can suffer losses because of neighboring WLANs, radar, and Bluetooth among other things.