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Have you replaced the cable? Is the current one old and/or home made?

I haven't yet replaced it, it's probably 5 years old, and home made.  I have tested it with a cable tester, and on the ISP combo device it stays at 1gig.   I'll try cleaning everything, re-terminating, and replacing if need be. TY.

Realtek NICs are not very good, especially when running FreeBSD. Replace with a decent Intel NIC and your problems should go away.

Mini PC, so can't really replace them

Just seconds after reboot I run a speed test and can get up to 800Mbps, a couple of minutes later it drops to ~200-300Mbps max.

Thank you for the suggestion but I don't think this is the case.  My link speed changes from "gigabit" to "fast".
Could very well be a physical issue.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

Hello folks,

I'm running OPNsense 22.7.9_3-amd64
FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p5
OpenSSL 1.1.1s 1 Nov 2022

On a mini PC with a celeron CPU J3455 and 4GB ram.  It has two realtek nics.

When I install the realtek driver and reboot I get gigabit on both LAN and WAN. Confirmed working as I get a speed test result on wifi of 300mbps.

Soon after though the link speed drops to 100mbps. Reboot does not fix it. confirmed link speed
uninstall / reinstall driver works. confirmed link speed. Forcing link speed does not work, drops back to 100m.

Wan doesn't drop speed. I swapped ports, no difference, same behaviour.   

Managed switch connected to LAN port does NOT change link speed when connected to ISP router.

I'm quite new to OPNsense and any insight on what to do to keep it pinned at a gigabit would be appreciated.

Thank you