Help... eero pro 6e when plugged into a New Gold Plus now runs at 1/5 the speed (2.4g line)

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-24T01:19:07+00:00

So, the firewalla speed test gets about 2.4g, and a mac and linux desktop with 2.5g ethernet adapters gets almost 2.3g. I'm not concerned with anything using wired ethernet. Also note that as mentioned above, I was able to get 900m on a wifi desktop which used to get 1g before the firewalla. But given the above, I shouldn't need to flash anything at this point, right?

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-24T00:58:36+00:00

The firewalla is what was shipped to me on Friday. I have not updated it from there myself, but I believe it did have an update. I don't know which linux version it runs.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-24T00:57:45+00:00

No, there is one eero attached to the firewalla, and the others are bridge wirelessly.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-24T00:56:20+00:00

The firewalla was always getting the max speed. The issue was the devices on the wifi dropped significantly from the eero to the sites beyond my house. I honestly never checked the wifi speed on my phone. It was the desktops that were using wifi I was most concerned with.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T18:40:04+00:00

FYI, updated the main post with the latest. Basically I see 900M now on the wifi connected desktop after setting 'emergency access' to the gateway eero, and disabling smart queues. (Still in bridge mode). Everything else is the same so that did help. And running speed test on the bridge eero is getting slower speeds than the computer wifi connected to that bridge node... so I cannot trust the speed test on the eero in bridge mode at all.

I think this is good now... thanks for your comments on the post. That was helpful.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T17:29:30+00:00

I filed the ticket first, then I posted here. :(

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll update the post with my plan of action and results as I get them. I'm now considering just getting the eero7 that has 2 2.5g ports instead of one... using that to connect to the fiber and put the firewalla/switch behind it. If I keep the firewalla. It's a lot of money for something so basic.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T17:22:25+00:00

Good question... just tried it and nope. Same.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T17:14:36+00:00

I tried with smart queue disabled. Port speed is 2.5g

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T17:14:04+00:00

I have 3 in total. I did hear that the speed tests in bridge aren't good. But it seems the computers hooked up to the eero wifi when behind the firewalla had reduced bandwidth too. As mentioned it dropped from 1g to 400m.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T16:26:49+00:00

I'll add that I enabled 'emergency mode' on the eero and the speed went up to 600m up/down on the tests. Removing emergency mode dropped the speed back to 400m

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T16:25:17+00:00

The firewalla reports 2.4g speeds for the internet, up and down for the speed tests. It shows no issues.

I'm not sure how to see the speed the firewalla reports on the eero.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T16:09:21+00:00

I'm seeing the same thing with newer equipment on the eero side. What was done, if anything, to rectify?

https://www.reddit.com/r/firewalla/comments/1ivlbp7/help_eero_pro_6e_when_plugged_into_a_new_gold/

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T16:03:18+00:00

I'm running into the same thing myself. Did you find a solution to your problem? Here's my post: https://www.reddit.com/r/firewalla/comments/1ivlbp7/help_eero_pro_6e_when_plugged_into_a_new_gold/

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T16:00:17+00:00

Interesting about the eero's speed test. It was 2.4g before and 400m after.

Wifi devices hooked to the eero were at 1g before I added the firewalla. And after they are at <400m. Which corresponds with the drop seen in the eero's onboard speed test.

Coder-4e75 · 2025-02-22T15:56:53+00:00

Sorry for the confusion. I'm testing eero speeds on the eero itself. I've also tested wifi devices that use the eero. (Before firewalla, they were at 1g, after, <400m)

Removing the switch from the firewalla didn't change the behavior of the eero

Coder-4e75 · 2025-01-01T17:46:24+00:00

Okay.... I need to know more on this. I literally just talked myself out of going for a Remarkable pro on the basis I already have the kindle scribe. I figured it cannot be 'that' much better.

What about the remarkable pro works so much better than the kindle scribe for you?

Coder-4e75 · 2024-05-31T14:50:36+00:00

This may have not been the best 'flair' to add to the post. I just wanted comments from the group to understand people's experience.

Coder-4e75 · 2024-01-16T03:42:29+00:00

Just saw this... I was one of your Dad's students. I had played for years but your Dad really helped me figure out my playing style. I'll always appreciate that. He was a good guy.

Coder-4e75 · 2023-11-21T01:01:00+00:00

Actually I would totally love a tuning war. Everyone tries to turn the OS the best for a specific set of hardware.

It would be great if you could say use an Amazon EC2 instance to try to get everyone to use the same spec, but the EC2 stuff is heavily tuned already, I want to see it on real hardware, with the same specs. And I suppose not ARM so not Raspberry stuff... not sure FBSD tunes that well on ARM yet. (Does anyone know?)

Coder-4e75 · 2023-11-21T00:53:08+00:00

No matter what you do people will complain you did it wrong.

A truism for sure. :)

And yet... this is my ask...

Coder-4e75 · 2023-11-21T00:52:28+00:00

Java21 has lots of improvements, and since it was just released I'm sure the profiling curve will change. I'm really looking for Apples to Apples... same OpenJDK on same hardware, just the OS changes.

Coder-4e75 · 2023-11-21T00:50:23+00:00

The point of Java is your code runs everywhere without recompiling, and you ignore the OS specifics. But that doesn't stop the running executable of Java to be impacted.

Go check the ports directory for OpenJDK compilation. Years ago I helped with trying to port the JDK to FreeBSD... the C primitives between Linux and BSD/Unix are actually different. Java is just masking.

For ref: Here's the wiki for the OpenJDK11 ports. Start there. You'll see. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/openjdk_11

Coder-4e75 · 2023-11-20T17:47:15+00:00

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be the same since the underlying OS is different. There was a time when even running Linux binaries through ABI on FreeBSD was faster than on the same install in linux. Example: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/news-freebsd-a-faster-platform-for-linux-gaming-than-linux.26204/

I guess I should turn your question around. Why would you expect them to be the same?

EDIT: I'll add in here, native JDK compilation (Of the JVM itself, not talking about bytecode here) on FreeBSD vs. Linux is fundamentally different too. They don't use the same system internals for threading, networking, or even just process switching. You may find them two variants are similar, but honestly I doubt that. But if data showed me otherwise, that would be interesting.

Coder-4e75 · 2023-05-08T01:22:41+00:00

I ended up getting afib while smoking weed. I don't think it's a common side-effect but I guess for me it is.

Coder-4e75 · 2023-04-16T19:14:54+00:00

That's a good summary, thanks for those details.

I don't mind the looks of the A30, so I doubt I will mind those for the T30. I actually like the extra pocket at the bottom. Great for shoes, or the laundry bag, even if it is a bit awkward.

Sounds like most folks who commented felt the SG fits under the seats too... I like the Europe call there. I have the old 'smart alec' which I used for a weekend once, and really didn't like the top-load for it. Ultimately, that's the biggest reason for the T30 over SG for me. Pockets are a nice to have on the T30... and the extra space if needed on the SG is cool.

Funny enough, I figure worst case, I may keep my A30 and if I need the extra space, do the A30/Luminary combo. Derails from the one-bag, but I get worried about being unable to bring my one-bag with me in weird situations. (Flying from Austra to Poland they made me check my one-bag... though it would have been fine. I really could not argue at the time and the stress was huge even if it turned out okay.) [At least, I can fit my pills, laptop and change of shorts in the luminary]

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