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General Discussion / Just got frontier Fiber
« on: December 06, 2023, 12:29:25 pm »
Hi all,
So I'm having some network related issues and I think they are related to my Opnsense router firewall hardware.
So When i use a frontier modem they provided I get the full 1Gbps Up and down (despite my connection being 2Gbps Fiber , he left a gig modem just to test it out. (not sure why they wouldn't've give me a 2Gbps modem to use 2Gbps internet but hey ho the one they left was the ARRIS Arris NVG448B which on this site clearly states link speed of !gbps up/down https://setuprouter.com/router/arris/nvg448b/)
Onto my cutstom OPNSense build:
Mobo: ga-h77m-g3h
RAM: 24GB
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770
Network: 2 x SFP+ port Mellanox X-Connect3 NIC's one with a 10Gig Ethernet module which is desiganted as the WAN port and the other as a dedicated SFP+ port which feeds my LAN to my Mikrotik CRS309-1G-8S+IN switch.
No for some reason when hooked up through my OPNSense router on ookla speedtest the max speeds I see are 1000Mbps down and 40 UP which is pathetic for a 2Gig internet line with a 10Gig backbone LAN. I'm convinced its something to do with the custom router hardware at this point and not my switching equipment but I guess my question is: Is my custom box powerful enough to serve this data?
Finally I AM using a cheap PCI-e riser cable from the Gigabyte motherboard to the Mellanox card in the server , but my open sense GUI sees the card as : 10Gbase-SR <full-duplex> So it seems to understand its a 10GIG module.
All the clients (Servers and my desktop PC) all have single SFP+ port Connectx-3 cards and are connected via DAC cables to the Mikrotik Switch.
Thanks in advance writing this early in the morning without having had my coffee.
So I'm having some network related issues and I think they are related to my Opnsense router firewall hardware.
So When i use a frontier modem they provided I get the full 1Gbps Up and down (despite my connection being 2Gbps Fiber , he left a gig modem just to test it out. (not sure why they wouldn't've give me a 2Gbps modem to use 2Gbps internet but hey ho the one they left was the ARRIS Arris NVG448B which on this site clearly states link speed of !gbps up/down https://setuprouter.com/router/arris/nvg448b/)
Onto my cutstom OPNSense build:
Mobo: ga-h77m-g3h
RAM: 24GB
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770
Network: 2 x SFP+ port Mellanox X-Connect3 NIC's one with a 10Gig Ethernet module which is desiganted as the WAN port and the other as a dedicated SFP+ port which feeds my LAN to my Mikrotik CRS309-1G-8S+IN switch.
No for some reason when hooked up through my OPNSense router on ookla speedtest the max speeds I see are 1000Mbps down and 40 UP which is pathetic for a 2Gig internet line with a 10Gig backbone LAN. I'm convinced its something to do with the custom router hardware at this point and not my switching equipment but I guess my question is: Is my custom box powerful enough to serve this data?
Finally I AM using a cheap PCI-e riser cable from the Gigabyte motherboard to the Mellanox card in the server , but my open sense GUI sees the card as : 10Gbase-SR <full-duplex> So it seems to understand its a 10GIG module.
All the clients (Servers and my desktop PC) all have single SFP+ port Connectx-3 cards and are connected via DAC cables to the Mikrotik Switch.
Thanks in advance writing this early in the morning without having had my coffee.