We activated our enterprise fiber web as we speak at our new location, 5 Gbps symmetrical.
The tech had a flowery {hardware} tester that he plugged to their EAD gateway, and repeatedly measured 4.75 Gbps or higher.
I used to be attempting to check with my laptop computer and a 10Gbps NIC — obtain was wonderful, ping = 1ms, nonetheless the add by no means exceeded 4.0 Gbps.
It is a new Macbook Professional M3 Professional, so the CPU is unquestionably as much as the duty. NIC is an Intel Professional/10Gbe (X520-DA2) in a Sonnet enclosure (x4 lanes confirmed) through Thunderbolt3 (40Gbps).
We additionally use this community {hardware} usually on our LAN aspect and get 700-1000MB/s. So the {hardware} chain ought to actually be as much as the duty.
The system was plugged in on to the ISP gateway, with the general public IP. No different community parts, gadgets, no firewalls, no routers, no switches. Nada.
Tried speedtest.web w/ a number of native servers, quick.com, Google, in Chrome, in Safari, the standalone SpeedTest app… all similar outcomes. (Effectively, Safari was crap, half velocity.) The tech was additionally validating (and getting the total velocity) from the identical native servers.
It is all the time been the identical case at our present location (5/5Gb DIA, totally different ISP), the ISP assessments the total velocity, however I may by no means fairly see it. However we’ve got a busy stay community right here (that I can not simply yank…..) so I normally let it’s.
My query is… Is there one thing about this tier of web velocity, PC, or desktop OS, that makes it unimaginable for a single system to make the most of your entire (5Gbps) bandwidth? Is it about tuning the TCP stack, driver (doubt I’ve another), or one thing else? It appears like I can not fairly validate the service we’re paying good cash for…
I’ve a number of days to tinker with this, earlier than I’ve to begin including hundreds… so I would like to kind it out.
