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I have a ClearOS Community version 6. It's been updated to the last version, 6.10.

I have 10 windows computers that connect to the ClearOS server which is installed in Gateway mode and that's all it's used for, nothing else. They connect to the Gateway through a dumb switch and the ClearOS box then connects them to the Internet. My ISP recently upgraded my speed to approximately 100Mbps, But none of my windows boxes can get anywhere near that when I go to a speedtest site like the ATT speedtest, maybe get to 10Mbps. If I by pass the Gateway and connect a windows box directly to my ISP router I get 80-90Mbps. So clearly there is a bottleneck with my Gateway.

It's a basic box with 2 gigabit ethernet cards, 4G of Ram and an i7 920 CPU.

I don't notice it for the most part of course just doing email and web stuff, and my core business basically doesn't need much other than that. But when I do software upgrades and have to download a large file, it takes a lot of time to do that. I'd like to be able to get the benefit of having a faster internet connection, but not sure where to start.

Do I need better hardware for the server? Are there tweaks that I need to do to my ClearOS setup? Do I need to update to 7?

Thanks
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Wednesday, January 29 2020, 09:33 PM
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    Thursday, January 30 2020, 09:01 PM - #Permalink
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    I didn't notice this post. What is the output of:
    lspci -k | grep Eth -A 3
    If it shows an RTL8111/8168/8411, please install the kmod-r8168 and kmod-r8169 drivers:
    yum install kmod-r816*
    Then reboot.

    If you are using the proxy, consider running it cacheless. There is a document in the knowledgebase

    If you are using the QoS/Bandwidth app, make sure you have set the correct Upstream and Downstream speeds.
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    Thursday, January 30 2020, 10:59 PM - #Permalink
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    so the output of that command is ...just so happens this particular build has a motherboard with 2 onboard ethernet ports. I do not have the QoS/Bandwidth app installed. I have a Bandwidth Viewer installed, just did it recently, but I don't really know what I am seeing with it's output. Should I install the QoS/Bandwidth App?


    I don't use a proxy. ClearOS Box connects directly to ISP router and has a static public IP address

    05:00:0 Ethernet Controller : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
    Subsystem : Asustek Computer Inc. Motherboard
    Kernel Driver in use: sky2
    Kernel Modules: sky2

    06:00:0 Ethernet Controller : Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
    Subsystem : Asustek Computer Inc. Motherboard
    Kernel Driver in use: sky2
    Kernel Modules: sky2
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