networking Help me fully utilize my ISP's 10 Gig fiber!

[daftz]

I recently switched from 1Gig Comcast to 10G Sonic fiber (for less $ per month too).

 

I want to see how baller this can truly be, so I upgraded my router to an ASUS RT-AX89X because it was (2) 10 Gig ports that can both be configured as WAN or LAN. I also installed a 10G NIC on my PC. Despite this I'm only getting 1.6G / 0.9G max.

 

Here's my config: 10G SFP+ NIC in motherboard's PCIe port > 10G SFP+ DAC cable > ASUS RT-AX89X 10G SFP+ port > ASUS RT-AX89X 10G RJ45 port (configured to be WAN port) > Cat6 > ISP ONT 10G port.

 

Any ideas why I'm unable to achieve nearly 10Gbps speed when running a speedtest?

 

Another weird note, not sure if it's part of the problem, but my router thinks the closest server is on the east coast while I'm sitting here on the west coast (North America). Same on Ookla. When I force it to a more local server, it performs even works with double the ping.

 

What do you think, docs?

[191x7]

Do you have fast enough drives, is your storage fast enough?

 

Which DNS do you use?

[Eigenvektor]

1 hour ago, daftz said:

Despite this I'm only getting 1.6G / 0.9G max.

How are you testing this? It's possible the remote server you're testing against can't deliver more. It's absolutely possible that not all test servers can deliver this kind of bandwidth.

 

According to Ookla there's also a browser limitation at play:

https://www.ookla.com/articles/10-gbps-speedtest

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Web browsers max out around 3 Gbps, so we used our our desktop app.

 

1 hour ago, daftz said:

Another weird note, not sure if it's part of the problem, but my router thinks the closest server is on the east coast while I'm sitting here on the west coast (North America). Same on Ookla. When I force it to a more local server, it performs even works with double the ping.

That would depend on where your connection actually goes out to the internet, after it goes from your location to your ISP's data center.

 

These services also simply use your IP to guess your location. If those IPs are known to belong to your ISP's location on the east cost, that's where they determine the closest servers are.

[daftz]

55 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

Do you have fast enough drives, is your storage fast enough?

 

Which DNS do you use?

Drive is a SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe Gen 4 Gaming M.2 Internal Solid State Drive Memory Card. That the drive you mean? This should suffice right? Forgive my ignorance but does the drive impact network speed?

 

I've tested with the DNS IP being selected automatically through my ISP, and with google (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4). Similar results, far below 10Gig.

 

[daftz]

47 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

How are you testing this? It's possible the remote server you're testing against can't deliver more. It's absolutely possible that not all test servers can deliver this kind of bandwidth.

 

According to Ookla there's also a browser limitation at play:

https://www.ookla.com/articles/10-gbps-speedtest

That's a good point. I was testing through both Ookla's speedtest dot net and my router's QoS test connection tool (which is powered by Ookla). I went ahead and downloaded the Speedtest app and it actually did perform better and found an actual local server:

 

[191x7]

That's 2/2

 

Now, are there any options like Green Ethernet, Energy Efficient Ethernet, Gigabit Lite and such turned ON in your network card settings?

[daftz]

30 minutes ago, 191x7 said:

That's 2/2

 

Now, are there any options like Green Ethernet, Energy Efficient Ethernet, Gigabit Lite and such turned ON in your network card settings?

Prowling through the NIC properties and this card doesn't have Green, EE, or Gigabit Lite as options even. I went a little haywire and disabled all TCP offloading settings, increased Transmit Buffer 512 to 1024, disabled interrupt moderation, changed speed and duplex value to 10 Gbps Full Duplex, changed max number of RSS queues from 8 to 16, and disabled flow control. Saw a bit of change actually. Followed the advice in this post: https://www.digit.in/features/tech/tweak-network-adapter-properties-networking-ethernet-wifi-vpn-45243.html

[silencer12]

1 hour ago, daftz said:

Prowling through the NIC properties and this card doesn't have Green, EE, or Gigabit Lite as options even. I went a little haywire and disabled all TCP offloading settings, increased Transmit Buffer 512 to 1024, disabled interrupt moderation, changed speed and duplex value to 10 Gbps Full Duplex, changed max number of RSS queues from 8 to 16, and disabled flow control. Saw a bit of change actually. Followed the advice in this post: https://www.digit.in/features/tech/tweak-network-adapter-properties-networking-ethernet-wifi-vpn-45243.html

I use tcp optimizer. It may or may not help since you have already changed things that the tool does.

 

https://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php