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GS324TP- Speeds are bad when plugged into switch. Help?
The model is GS324TP The switch isn't pulling the proper download speeds. I have tested the speeds from my router with the same cable (so router cat5 cable into laptop) and get great speeds the m...
I'd try a power cycle of the switch and your Firewall appliance device. See if anything changes.
If not, If you have a backup config from the GS switch, factory reset it and run a quick test with it in default configuration.
Depending on what you see, then load back up configuration.
Might try the ISP modem in router mode, remove the firewall device and connect the GS switch directly to the ISP router and run some tests to compare configuration results.
Hi I did power cycle the switch and firewall previously before posting. Nothing changed. Currently, the ISP modem is in router mode and my PF sense box is turned off, so literally the modem is doing everything.
I tried some more testing I connected the GS324TP switch directly to the router, then plugged my laptop into a port on th switch and the speeds slow down (8mb down, 5 up) but if I take that same cable and plug it into my laptop instead of the GS324 switch I get 92 down, 5up.
Temporarily I grabbed another switch I had, GS308pp, and plugged the cable from the modem to that switch, then from that switch to my laptop and get 8mb down, 4up. If I bypass that switch and just go into my laptop I get 90+ down.
Then I took the GS308pp upstairs and in the diagram there is an AP that is off by itself, it is plugged into the office L2 switch (a GS308pp). I plugged my laptop directly into the cat5 cable first (so it went laptop, office GS308pp, router), got speeds of 100+.
Then I plugged in the upstairs GS308pp switch (temporarily), into the cat5 that the AP was on, so now its GS308pp, to GS308pp, to router. Boom, speeds are 180+ to 340+.
This makes no sense to me, as as of this morning, it doesn't seem to be the GS324TP but I can't figure out what it is because I tried the same cables and plugged them into the laptop and I get speeds of 90+.
The only thing I can think of is if my internet speed coming from the router, after it gets dispersed to the different switches an end points it starts to break down and lessens over length but I am not sure if that even makes sense tbh.
All of this equipment had been in place for at least a month, so its not like it was something new that got added and everything started that day. Nothing changed in configurations or anything like that and now that its back to my normal router setup it tells me it was never the pf sense box. I just don't know what to do next anymore since it obviously isn't a cable either since I tried a handful of those to.
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