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No Ideas? Dumb Question??? :o

I could really use some advise.  Forgive me as I am not certain I am the expert most of you are, but I know enough to be dangerous.  I have been getting choppy outbound voice on Zoom meetings and general slowness which it is affecting my job.
 
When I installed the system in 2017, I believe my ISP only provided me 60Mbps and I think I only got about 20 or 30 but since everything worked, I put up with it I guess.  Now the ISP is delivering 200Mbps.  If I connect my laptop directly to the modem no firewall I get 210 to 230.  As soon as I put this router in place, it peaks in the low 90's but isn't consistent even dropping as low as 1.xMbps and up 0.0.  The ISP says no problem must be router.  I do know I got hit by lightening 3 weeks ago taking the POE switch and one POE IP CAM out.  Figuring there is a possibility of a modem might have better negotiation managed under a soft tcp stack on a computer vs opnsense firmware.  One thing I think I should do is take the modem in for exchange to eliminate that. 
Knowing I have this issue, I bought a $50 linksys e4500.  It behaves the same way.  Low 90s and often drops down to single digits even for a few moments. 

I have:
OPNsense 20.1.9_1-amd64
FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p20-HBSD
OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020

MODEM
Spectrum D3.1 eMTA
DOCSIS 3.1

Hardware is on a Supermicro 1U server E7400 Core 2 Duo 2.80 GHz which came with a single NIC and I pulled a 4 port NIC out of a dell poweredge (NIC MAC if helps 00:15:17....) 
Both LAN and WAN show at dashboard as 1000baseT full duplex NOT 100. 
WAN is reporting both an IPv4 IP and IPv6 address

During my testing, I have excluded the entire network switches and devices as I have many.  I tested with a desktop hard wired pc, and a laptop with hard wire and wifi, and my phone. 

aside from swapping out the modem with I plan to do today, are there any other suggestions?  Is my hardware to sucky and I just don't know it?

what is the simplest way to prevent my work computer from browsing devices on my network? 

I have opnsense and 2 ubiquiti AP's.  I seem to struggle over the setup of subnets, so I turn to this group to see what others might have for insight.  Thanks.

I'm on my little phone display and I made a mistake in the NAT rules and now there is an option to apply changes.  I don't see any option to cancel or revert back.

Apparently the reflection setting did the trick.  I did select reflection on the bottom of my port forward, but it didn't seem to work until I did it in the global place.  I don't really get why that option would not be enabled by default.

I really found this tutorial helpful, thank you for taking the time to publish it.

opnsense is so precise.  I don't know if anyone cares, and I don't really know how to say it.  I am so impressed with opnsense as I can make a change and know it took.  I am use to working on stock routers, and older equipment and the changes don't seem to update at all or fast enough.  Today opnsense helped me big time with an old pair of dell switches that don't seem to work or update very well.  Knowing you can trust your router is really a time saver and a joy to work with.
Finding wireless devices connected, and not knowing where it is in the house or what it actually is was a so easy to find.  Just do a quick packet capture and see who it is talking to.  Quickly saw a carrier in the capture log and knew it was my HVAC.  I tried on multiple occasions before to figure out what the device was and just couldn't figure out how. 
I did use PFSense two year ago but this seem to have a more intuitive GUI layout.  Simple and streamlined. 

If you agree with me, please donate to this community, I know I plan to shortly.
Thanks!!!