FortiGate - Speedtest

scottalanmiller

First, we have to assume that there is no cap. I'm not sure where the idea of caps came from, but there is no reason to expect any and the tests tell us that there almost certainly aren't.

scottalanmiller

Second, we know from the FortiGate measurements that the line is working just fine. Maybe it doesn't get to 100Mb/s, but it almost certainly does because you are getting so close to the correct limits under normal load. So we can just assume that the line and the ISP are doing what they are supposed to do.

scottalanmiller

So it seems that the issue is likely the laptop. What does speedtest tell us from the laptop when connected to the network as usual, rather than directly to the ISP's connection?

maximus

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

So it seems that the issue is likely the laptop. What does speedtest tell us from the laptop when connected to the network as usual, rather than directly to the ISP's connection?

9 MB DL / 89 MB UL

scottalanmiller

@maximus said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

So it seems that the issue is likely the laptop. What does speedtest tell us from the laptop when connected to the network as usual, rather than directly to the ISP's connection?

9 MB DL / 89 MB UL

Okay so consistently we know that the laptop has some problems. So it isn't useful for testing. Why your laptop has network problems is another question, but isn't related to your ISP.

maximus

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@maximus said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

So it seems that the issue is likely the laptop. What does speedtest tell us from the laptop when connected to the network as usual, rather than directly to the ISP's connection?

9 MB DL / 89 MB UL

Okay so consistently we know that the laptop has some problems. So it isn't useful for testing. Why your laptop has network problems is another question, but isn't related to your ISP.

thanks, will try another laptop.

scottalanmiller

@maximus said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@maximus said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

So it seems that the issue is likely the laptop. What does speedtest tell us from the laptop when connected to the network as usual, rather than directly to the ISP's connection?

9 MB DL / 89 MB UL

Okay so consistently we know that the laptop has some problems. So it isn't useful for testing. Why your laptop has network problems is another question, but isn't related to your ISP.

thanks, will try another laptop.

You aren't trying to use wireless in any of this, are you?

maximus

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@maximus said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@maximus said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

So it seems that the issue is likely the laptop. What does speedtest tell us from the laptop when connected to the network as usual, rather than directly to the ISP's connection?

9 MB DL / 89 MB UL

Okay so consistently we know that the laptop has some problems. So it isn't useful for testing. Why your laptop has network problems is another question, but isn't related to your ISP.

thanks, will try another laptop.

You aren't trying to use wireless in any of this, are you?

nope.

notverypunny

You should be OK with a laptop for these speeds.

I'd suggest trying a linux install with iperf3. You could try iperf3 on Windows but my recent adventures with it have shown that iperf on Windows is garbage, vastly inferior results when compared to the linux install.

Other thing to consider is your AV and security stuff on windows... might have to tweak exceptions or disable it (temporarily)

scottalanmiller

@notverypunny said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

You should be OK with a laptop for these speeds.

A laptop, yes. That's not the point. The issue is something with this particular setup, laptop or whatever, can't get the speeds so testing with it doesn't tell him anything useful.

notverypunny

@scottalanmiller said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

@notverypunny said in FortiGate - Speedtest:

You should be OK with a laptop for these speeds.

A laptop, yes. That's not the point. The issue is something with this particular setup, laptop or whatever, can't get the speeds so testing with it doesn't tell him anything useful.

I've run into issues specifically for laptops where I couldn't get decent speeds, something either with the HW specifically or power-management / network stack wouldn't allow me to get the same speeds as a server / workstation connected to the exact same port / equipment. Regardless, you're correct that this laptop seems to have issues.

Is the package 100MB up and down? Is it a full 100 or a "burstable" setup (not sure how common this one is, but at a former gig we had a line that was provisioned at one speed but would allow temporary surges to another tier before automatically throttling back to the base rate.)

using iperf3
DOWNLOAD SPEEDS

iperf3 -c iperf.he.net -R -P 10

UPLOAD SPEEDS

iperf3 -c iperf.he.net -P 10

You can check a list of public iperf servers :
https://iperf.fr/iperf-servers.php
if you're in another region or if the HE ones are too busy