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SG Home on 1,000mbps internet connection

TomMoran

I've had my Sophos Home XG Gateway for well over 5 years running perfectly on my Xfinity Blast internet at 300 down and 10 up.  I recently upgraded to their gig offering at 1000 down 50 up.  My XG seems to be a bottleneck in the equation.  I cannot seem to get over 500mbps out of it (it will burst occasionally to 700 but if I take it out of the equation I consistently get 850-950 from my pc.

Tests done so far:

  1. Turned off all filtering
  2. Turned off any and all IDS settings
  3. Turned off my VPN
  4. Made 1 single rule to pass all traffic

None of these efforts seem to have any affect on the speed, behind my firewall I still consistently get 250 to 350 down with an occasional burst like I said above but extremely occasional.

I've searched the boards and I can't seem to find anything on the limitations of the free Home license.  Are there any bandwidth limits?

It's running on a 2nd gen Corei5 with 8gb of RAM and a 500gb SSD.  My network card is an Intel 2 port PCIe card

Thanks in advance,

Tom



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    Forgot to mention...

    SFVH (SFOS 18.0.4 MR-4)

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    Only quick thinking... What about "Traffic shaping (QoS) settings" ? What is XG CPU&RAM when you try download files? 

    I currently test XG Home on old motherboard with 4GB ram and Intel P8600(Mobile) CPU and with everytnig enabled I can get around 180Mbit/100Mbit. But with torrent I can easy reach 350Mbit/100Mbit which is also my ISP speed ... On that rule I have enabled onl IPS(LAN to WAN) and "Log firewall traffic" ...

    Sophos XG v18.5.x - Supermicro CSE-512, X10SLM+F, E3-1220v3 8GB RAM, Intel X520-DA2

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    Hi Tom,

    there is no limit to download speed for the home version. The issue is usually caused by CPU because the snort is cuttingly single threaded. If you try to download on two different PCs you should expect to see your link maximum speed.

    As one of the other posters asked what is your CPU performance during download, what tor NICs are you using? Finally what model is the CPU.

    If you replace your box, go for a fast but cheap 4 real core chip, it does need to be an i5 or greater.

    Ian

    XG115W - v20 GA - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v20 GA

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    I'm so sorry, I went into fix it mode and completely forgot that I had made this post.  You are correct, there is no limit on even on the home version.  Here is what happened to me, my NIC in my gaming pc is 2.5gb capable but my network does not support it.  The crc errors on my switch were just insane, nearly filling the log completely.  I had to hard set my port to 1gb to stop that.  I knew it had to be my workstation because I plugged my laptop in at 1gb to the same port and ran speed tests with consistently 700-900mbps.  Sorry I forgot to reply to the thread until just now.  You all correct though there is no limit on the bandwidth using the home license.

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