We activated our enterprise fiber web at the moment at our new location, 5 Gbps symmetrical.
The tech had a elaborate {hardware} tester that he plugged to their EAD gateway, and repeatedly measured 4.75 Gbps or higher.
I used to be making an attempt 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 certainly as much as the duty. NIC is an Intel Professional/10Gbe (X520-DA2) in a Sonnet enclosure (x4 lanes confirmed) by way of Thunderbolt3 (40Gbps).
We additionally use this community {hardware} repeatedly on our LAN facet 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 elements, gadgets, no firewalls, no routers, no switches. Nada.
Tried speedtest.internet w/ a number of native servers, quick.com, Google, in Chrome, in Safari, the standalone SpeedTest app… all identical outcomes. (Effectively, Safari was crap, half pace.) The tech was additionally validating (and getting the complete pace) from the identical native servers.
It is at all times been the identical case at our present location (5/5Gb DIA, completely different ISP), the ISP checks the complete pace, however I might by no means fairly see it. However we now have a busy stay community right here (that I am unable to simply yank…..) so I often let it’s.
My query is… Is there one thing about this tier of web pace, PC, or desktop OS, that makes it not possible for a single system to make the most of your entire (5Gbps) bandwidth? Is it about tuning the TCP stack, driver (doubt I’ve an alternate), or one thing else? It looks like I am unable to 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 masses… so I might like to type it out.