Unable to get more than 100mbps on lan?
Hello! I'm relatively new to PF sense but I feel like I have a decent understanding of it at this point with how much troubleshooting I've done, but I really had a wall and nothing I have tried seems to fix it. So here's my situation:
I modified a thinkcentre m73 ( tiny form factor) to have an additional Ethernet port by using one of the built in mini pcie ports so it now has two ethernet ports. When I connect directly to the modem on my laptop I get 600 plus megabits per second and I should be getting 1 gig speeds but that's outside the point. When I plug in my router to my modem, no matter which Port I use, I cannot seem to get more than 100 Mbps when I do a speed test online. I've tried adding a USB ethernet port and for whatever reason that's still also doesn't get more than $100 and I have tried manually changing the speed in the console to 1000 versus 100. I still am not getting good speeds. I've done factory resets in PF. Sense to try and fix it but it feels like no matter what configuration I do with my ethernet ports. My internet speeds are through. My router are just really slow. I would really appreciate any more advice on things I could try or if anyone else's can run into this issue and has a fix. It feels like it is just something related to my router, but my CPU usage doesn't seem to be going more than 2% even when running speed tests.
Edit: I also ordered two different gbps USB ethernet nics and still have the same problem
Things I ruled out: the speed from spectrum because I'm definitely getting more than 100 megabits per second through the modem The ethernet cables My laptops ethernet port I think the ethernet ports themselves are fine since even with a USB port it's still not hitting more than 100mbps at best.
Something strange about the speed tests is it doesn't even hit 100, but it'll hit 60 and build up to generally around 80ish.