I run a miniscule ISP. Speed tests are flawed. Depends on which ones you are running - they basically download a file (typically 2 to 10 MB) and determine how much time that took. Then they report the "mbps".
Issues like "latency" are almost never taken into account when reporting these tests. It totally depends on how "far" your speedtest server is. Internet is much more than just the thickness of your pipe. Also, apologies for assuming "you don't know", but Internet speeds (throughput) are in mega bits per second and not mega bytes per second. Vivek Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Original Message From: Patrick Sent: Sunday 30 August 2015 23:39 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: OpenBSD on Fiber Hello, I have a fiber internet connection with 500Mbs download and 500Mbs upload. I installed a long time ago a firewall with OpenBSD 5.5 with routing and PF. But after a speedtest the line is stuck at around 200Mbs. Even when i download a test bin the speed is around 17Mbs. After this experience i had FreeBSD installed which doing fine with my fiber network. I have tested 5.6 and 5.7 and even 5.8 for testing any improvements in the network speed. Does anybody now what can cause this problem? Below i have my specs posted: *Hardware / OS* HP DL380 G6 vSphere ESXI 6 (Updated to last patches) *VM* Virtual Machine 11 (Also tried 8) Type: Other 32Bit / Other 64Bit And FreeBSD 64bit same results 1 CPU & 1 core 4GB *What i have tried (This all had no results)* Upgrade the virtual machine hardware. Forward the network cards from pci slots to the VM Different ethernet adapters, VMXNET3 is still the best which is getting the highest speeds. Add system tweaks in sysctl.conf & disabling PF Use other versions of OpenBSD 32Bit / 64Bit. Best Regards, Patrick
