Could be an MTU issue, as mentioned above. I’d make sure if Path MTU discovery is working (e.g., no blocking of ICMP traffic in the firewall rules). Check your traffic for packet fragmentation with Wireshark or the like.
Also, if you tested your BPI-R4 against the x86 VM at different times of day or on different days, you might have encountered a temporary congestion somewhere else between you and the remote servers.
Nope. Same time. I literally plug and unplug from one to another with minutes difference for testing.
Just tested with both 24.10.1 and snapshot just eth1 ( or sfp-lan) and eth2 (or sfp-wan) configured, nothing else and it’s the same. Upload speed to a server 450 miles away from me gets me 267mbps With x86 and and the config I’ve been using for 3 years now 840mpbs.
There’s definitely wrong here and it’s the r4. Drivers ? Flow control? Not powerful enough for large uploads long distance ? Don’t know.
There are no details in what you are doing.
That is not how the internet works. You are never directly connected, but relayed. It is not a radio.
I know it’s not directly connected, there’s routes and hops and that a server 12 miles away has different latency than one 500miles away
Still. Since my config is the same and I get different speeds from an X64 vm machine and the R4 it’s either a hardware limitation which I wouldn’t expect to be or software / drivers issue.
Last night I even tried to plug an external usb to a raspberry pi 5 put on an ad card, imported all my configs and guess what ? 840 mbps upload to the same server where I only get 250 with the R4
I don’t understand what do you mean details. ? I’ve been speed doing ookla speed tests and iperf3 tests to VPS two different vps on different countries
fyi, those are guys are not banana pi representative but only users trying to help as like 99% of users here.
could it be defective sfp? which type are you using?
If anything is defective is the banana pi. LOL it’s just a Dac cable connected to a switch. Two Dac cable’s actually. And they work fine connected to an Intel x520 on my x86 openwrt vm.
LOL i am not the one with an issue and an attitude… you ask for help and you are only vindicative and not providing information to get help.
keep searching, may be you will find on the way how to speak to other humans being trying to give you an helping hand.
How am I not providing information having an atitude ? I’ve explained like 4 or 5times already what my issue is, what configuration I have and what I did on the R4. Making comments about being an issue with a dns, a cable a fiber module or even my isp fault makes no sense when I said already that I had a fully working x86 system with and all I did was um plug two cables and plug them on the R4. The router configuration is 100% the same. I literally imported a config back from the old system to the R4. Nothing changed except the router itself. It’s quite frustrating to be honest …l
Are you telling me a configuration on a system doesn’t work on another? I even stated earlier I tried plain simple config with just an internet and lan one. No bridges no nothing. Just my internet vlan from the ONU and a subnet for internal lan access. Nothing else… and the issue is still there. Actually is even worse than with my config. I know this is just a user based forum and not official support I get that. It’s fair that you don’t know what it is…
that i understand but people trying to help here are not at fault.
first time you mentioned using dac cable. one system is not another as drivers or modules might me different for each openwrt installation.
only information provided is that it doesn’t work, you plug unplug and that’s it. did you try any user build on openwrt 24 branch?
No I just tried images from firmware selector from openwrt site. Both 24 and snapshot.
I’m going to try the image on the wiki page with the proprietary mediatek drivers later on.
If you know any other images that could be interesting to try I’m glad to give it a go
you will see iperf and if you continue to go up, there should be rafal image available as well as other.
you can also try asking there if you use openwrr.
did you manage to get it working?
No! I gave up and returned the board to AliExpress.
There are other issues i can’t get around at this point. Tailscale performance is also quite poor for my needs for exemple.