Hello
I have inherited 15 sites around the country running 2011UiAS boards. Previously they were all on 50Mb internet connections, but as I have been upgrading them to 100Mb and 500Mb I have noticed that the Mikrotiks dont appear to be keeping up. For example, out of one site I get 488Mb up & 478Mb down from the ISPs Cisco router onsite, but only 65Mb up and 97Mb down from a laptop connected into the Mikrotik.
Poking about, I see this configuration setting called FastTrack, and it sounds like I need to enable it. I have attached the script that was created by the previous support company; we rolled this identical config on all sites, obviously changing the IP addresses and VPN details as required! I dont know enough about the setup and whether just adding in the following code I found here https://www.manitonetworks.com/mikrotik/2016/5/22/mikrotik-fasttrack-firewall-rules will work to enable fastTrack, or worse completely break it!
add action=fasttrack-connection chain=forward comment=
“FastTrack Established / Related Forward” connection-state=
established,related
add chain=forward comment=“Accept Established / Related Forward”
connection-state=established,related
Of it doesn’t work when such rules are at first place, check the error message when adding such rule. Maybe the ros version is too old and missing the fasttrack functionality.
Simple checking, winbox RB2011 does have fast and gigaEthernent port. I assume you select GigaEthernet port while increasing the bandwith.
General info,
Fastrack allow you to bypass most of the firewall and bandwidth shapping rules. If there is no such limit, you should be able to get full bandwidth available. So check with port in use, if giga post your export config.