Sanity check for N100 / i226 on a 2000 / 2000 line

[BrandyWine]

Stop OPNsense FW services and run your windows test through the router, what speed does it get.

I think for anything above 1Gb you need to tune the device as a fast router. Anything beyond just router and it will slow things down.

You can also test through the fw from a host on port A to a host on port B. A ping test with various sizes, ping -s or ping -l, and record the response time, from there it's just math (use AI bot). You can also load up bandwidth by sending large sums of UDP from A to B.

[nero355]

Additional CPU load.

I think that's not it to be honest...

I have also never seen such claims/issues when people use to build their DIY NAS based on FreeBSD with ZFS before there was OpenZFS for Linux for example.
And those sometimes even had 10 Gbps NICs onboard !! :)

[pfry]

I think that's not it to be honest...[...]

Heh. I agree. But it should be eliminated as a possibility.

[Ozymandias]

After dabbling with Alpine and going back into the bios I realised that PCIe 1 and 2 were set to Gen1 (I did think I had changed them to Auto a number of years ago). After amending to both to Auto I'm now getting 2.10 Gbits/sec to a public server from OPNsense, 2.12 Gbits/sec from Win11, and 2.35 Gbits/sec OPNsense to Unraid. Thanks for all the input.