Hi all,
I am running Opnsense 25.7 on an Intel N150, 4 x i226-v (16gb DDR5) topton mini pc. Until yesterday I was running Opnsense in a VM under Proxmox with 3 x cores allocated and 8gb RAM. I have since decided to install Opnsense bare metal on the same hardware.
I have a BQM (broadband quality monitor) running and since the switch my maximum (WAN) ping has been consistently higher - is this coincidence or has anyone seen anything like this before?
I am on Virgin Media in the UK (1140/110 - DOCSIS 3.1).
I have attached the graphs covering 27-07-25 to today 29-07-25 to highlight better what I mean. The red bars are when I made the switch.
I have been doing a little digging and the answer has just come to me:
I moved my WAN connection to another port on the box now that I'm running bare metal. Because this is now a new MAC address, I had to reset to reset my virgin media hub (modem), which issued me with a new DHCP public address, but crucially through a different gateway, hence the change in ping response times.