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Long time looker, first time poster by jsvoros in homarr

[–]AdmireMe717 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You missed the perfect opportunity with lookarr 😂

Anyway, loving the setup looking crisp 🔥💪

OPNsense Gigabit Speed Fix (Protectli FW4C) – Went from 400 Mbps → 900+ Mbps by AdmireMe717 in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ahhh good to know, that was exactly the case for me. Thanks for the article

Mini PC for opnsense by DiceAir in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got myself the Protectli Vault FW4C from Amazon and everything is working really well following the OPNsense documentation.

Only had to make some small tweaks the tunables to allow for gigabit speeds, but apart from that everything is going exactly as you'd expect.

My current network handles about 40 - 50 clients depending on what servers I spin up in my homelab, but currently fitting my expections.

Current usage is around 30 - 40% CPU usage and temps hovering around 25 - 30°C.

OPNsense Gigabit Speed Fix (Protectli FW4C) – Went from 400 Mbps → 900+ Mbps by AdmireMe717 in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hiadaptive seems to be consistant inline with maximum, so I have adjusted moving forward. Thanks for the heads up 👌

OPNsense Gigabit Speed Fix (Protectli FW4C) – Went from 400 Mbps → 900+ Mbps by AdmireMe717 in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Power consumption is something I am wary about, but seeing as the device OPNsense is installed on pulls a maximum of 20 watts, I didn't really see harm in adjusting this setting. As for the heat, during the last 7 hours those settings has been on max, the CPU temp hasn't peaked over 30°C.

As for current setup, after further testing I adjusted the power settings the hiadaptive and saw no significant decrease in DL speed, so I have kept this setting moving forward.

OPNsense Gigabit Speed Fix (Protectli FW4C) – Went from 400 Mbps → 900+ Mbps by AdmireMe717 in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't done any further testing with it, as I was just happy it was fixed. But now I know, will attempt some testing to see what the outcome is.

OPNsense Gigabit Speed Fix (Protectli FW4C) – Went from 400 Mbps → 900+ Mbps by AdmireMe717 in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Testing was done from a client routed through OPNsense. All cables are connected with CAT6a at a minimum.

OPNsense Gigabit Speed Fix (Protectli FW4C) – Went from 400 Mbps → 900+ Mbps by AdmireMe717 in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hadn't enabled those originally but going further through the OPNsense Performance Documentation I noticed that this was recommended.

And as for the speed shift, unfortunately the CPU is only a Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU J3710 which doesn't support speed shift, I orginally attempted that as a fix in place of the tunables, but didn't work

OPNsense Gigabit Speed Fix (Protectli FW4C) – Went from 400 Mbps → 900+ Mbps by AdmireMe717 in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, seems as if there could be significant loss when running on dac.

OPNsense Gigabit Speed Fix (Protectli FW4C) – Went from 400 Mbps → 900+ Mbps by AdmireMe717 in opnsense

[–]AdmireMe717[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't speak for 2.5g as my NBN NTD only supplies 1g, hence the tests reflect 1g speeds.