I am going to toss this under networking as I think it is mostly networking....
I recently upgraded from ATT gigabit fiber to the 2gig service. With the old 1 gig service I used to use the whole dumb switch bypass to bypass the router gateway and just shoot everything to PFsense. With the new service, the the router gateway has the ONT baked into the device itself, afaik it is no longer possible to bypass it. They provided me a BGW-320-500 which has a single 5gbe port. From that port I go into my R210ii with an intel x550-t2. On the lan side I go out to my Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN which has a 10g baseT transceiver and each of my servers has a 10gb connection into that switch.
I am having some weirdness with speedtests that I have never noticed before switching to this setup. The issue is with windows I cannot for the life of me get higher than 1gbps speed.
Virtualized Windows 10 on ESXI on R720xd connected to the same switch at 10gbps I get 4-500mbps down and about 2gbps up via the desktop app.
Virtualized Ubuntu server on ESXI on R720xd with speedtest CLI gets 2.2gbps up and down all day long, consistently.
Both instances on the same vswitch, same server, same virtual hardware.
It is obviously not a hardware issue as one OS can do it with no issues and it seems to be pretty close to accurate as PFsense shows the traffic hitting about 2-3gbps. The other weird thing is all the desktops in my house now also seemed to be only getting 4-500mbps downloads via speedtest yet 940ish up every time. Prior to making this change they were always in the 940ish up and down ballpark. The desktops on the network are all only 1gig machines and I have no intention of upgrading them any time soon, all I wanted was faster speeds to my servers. I know speedtest is not the most accurate app and it varies by the server it hits, it just seems bizarre that windows machines all seem to exhibit the same behavior.
Here is the last weird bit... If I run speedtest cli in WSL in that same Windows instance I get the same 4-500mbps speed down but it seems to cap at about 500 up. None of the 2gbps that the desktop app had.
Obviously these are 1st world problems, but it seems so odd that there is such a big difference in tests between Windows and Linux, Linux on Windows, even on desktops the speed is not consistent anymore.
I recently upgraded from ATT gigabit fiber to the 2gig service. With the old 1 gig service I used to use the whole dumb switch bypass to bypass the router gateway and just shoot everything to PFsense. With the new service, the the router gateway has the ONT baked into the device itself, afaik it is no longer possible to bypass it. They provided me a BGW-320-500 which has a single 5gbe port. From that port I go into my R210ii with an intel x550-t2. On the lan side I go out to my Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN which has a 10g baseT transceiver and each of my servers has a 10gb connection into that switch.
I am having some weirdness with speedtests that I have never noticed before switching to this setup. The issue is with windows I cannot for the life of me get higher than 1gbps speed.
Virtualized Windows 10 on ESXI on R720xd connected to the same switch at 10gbps I get 4-500mbps down and about 2gbps up via the desktop app.
Virtualized Ubuntu server on ESXI on R720xd with speedtest CLI gets 2.2gbps up and down all day long, consistently.
Both instances on the same vswitch, same server, same virtual hardware.
It is obviously not a hardware issue as one OS can do it with no issues and it seems to be pretty close to accurate as PFsense shows the traffic hitting about 2-3gbps. The other weird thing is all the desktops in my house now also seemed to be only getting 4-500mbps downloads via speedtest yet 940ish up every time. Prior to making this change they were always in the 940ish up and down ballpark. The desktops on the network are all only 1gig machines and I have no intention of upgrading them any time soon, all I wanted was faster speeds to my servers. I know speedtest is not the most accurate app and it varies by the server it hits, it just seems bizarre that windows machines all seem to exhibit the same behavior.
Here is the last weird bit... If I run speedtest cli in WSL in that same Windows instance I get the same 4-500mbps speed down but it seems to cap at about 500 up. None of the 2gbps that the desktop app had.
Obviously these are 1st world problems, but it seems so odd that there is such a big difference in tests between Windows and Linux, Linux on Windows, even on desktops the speed is not consistent anymore.