So, I’ve just upgraded my internet from VDSL Broadband FTTC and was getting and average of 34Mb/s, reliably demonstrated by a speedtest.net on the PC and fast.com on HA, both matched results. Now I’ve go full fibre FTTP, with the engineer showing me a speed of 270Mb/s on his device, and tests since between 269-276Mb/s, this is where I’ve noticed the issues on HA.
Now, I wonder if some of you can help me get to the bottom of why HA won’t show a true internet speed test, everything I read so far just lays the blame with hardware, but I can disprove that as the cause.
Running HA OS (Core 2024.9) as a VM on Proxmox 8.2.4, I’ve used both fast.com and speedtest.net integrations. Hardware wise, Proxmox is running on a Dell 7070 Micro Intel 9500T 6 core, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVME drive, with a Intel i219-LM Gigabit NIC, HA has 2 Cores, and 4GB RAM assigned to it.
My internet speed shown on HA:
Fast.com shows around 131Mb/s, but did peak at 151Mb/s over the past 24 hours (polled every hour).
SpeedTest.net has shown between 191 and 212Mb/s in the last hour or so, graph currently polling every 5 mins so I can get an immediate gauge of things since I recently tried speedtest.net.
Now to disprove the “hardware” thing. Ubuntu 24.04 has 2 Cores and 3GB RAM assigned to it.
SpeedTest.net on a Firefox browser shows 276Mb/s.
Network settings for both VMs are the same on Proxmox.
Also extra info I’m running pfSense on a mini PC, all 4 network ports report the same speed and duplex, Promox is connected on it’s own dedicated port, and the Ubuntu speed test matches my PC (connected on another port) speedtest.net test, just to rule out pfSense.
I also added OpenSpeedTest to HA, which is an internal network test, just to see what that would show, and that shows 288Mb/s down and 279Mbp/s upload from my PC, and if I run LibreSpeed test (which is in a container on my NAS) on the Unbuntu VM I get 275Mb/s down and 368Mb/s upload. But here I know the limiting factor is probably the Powerline adapters from my home office where my NAS and PC is, to the Proxmix machine and router in another room. For context if I do a LibreSpeed test on my PC I’ll easily see around 4,000Mb’s down and 2,000 up. But since Proxmox in plugged directly into the pfSense router (and provider modem) there’s no Powerline interaction.
So is the an HA issue, an integration issue, limitations within HA? Has anyone with higher then standard FTTC internet, rated at max 80Mb/s (in the UK anyway) been able to get the HA speed to match there true internet speed?
There’s no real need for me to test, but I want some sort of medium term data so I can prove to my provider what speeds I usually see if theres ever a drop in speeds.
Just as I finish writing, sppedtest.net on HA shows 246.47Mb/s, so at least that’s closer, unlike fast.com.