hammy
Super Pro Member
Just wondering do you get the same web browsing and packet loss issues when you use the ISP router? As pfSense is known to not work well with PPPoE due to flawed implementation.Well for a while I have VM IPoE gig1, and CityFibre PPPoE 1000/1000
Latency is 4ms which is insane, insane upload speed.
However when downloading packet loss is in the gutter, like it was on VDSL, investigating, and keep finding pfSense PPPoE packet loss posts.
Will report back if I fix it. I also have a more powerful kit I have yet to deploy on pfSense. Of course PPPoE might be nothing to do with it as VM do seem to allow more buffered packets than other ISPs.
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Will come back to this later, I have significantly reduced the loss by making sure max-mss working properly and baby jumbo frames, 1452 was murdering it, that also boosted fast.com from 870mbps which was a little low up to 930-940. I also made the CPU clock more aggressive, tomorrow or Wednesday ill get the more powerful kit in place to feed that PPPoE beast
If/when I finally get fibre I might choose a PPPoE ISP like BT or EE, but if they have those issues even on the ISP router then I guess I'd be limited to only Sky or TalkTalk.























