I have a RB850Gx2 (with 2 x CPU) with 5 x Gig Ethernet ports.
Using iPerf3 test.. between a PC (port 4) and VM on ESX server (port 5) connected on "vlan2"..
My "download" speed seems to approach 850Mbps.. so no complaints here
>iperf3 -c 192.168.12.133 -w 1MB -R
Connecting to host 192.168.12.133, port 5201
Reverse mode, remote host 192.168.12.133 is sending
[ 4] local 192.168.12.21 port 57573 connected to 192.168.12.133 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 87.3 MBytes 733 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 94.4 MBytes 792 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 90.6 MBytes 760 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 101 MBytes 844 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 95.6 MBytes 802 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 94.6 MBytes 793 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 97.2 MBytes 815 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 102 MBytes 855 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 99.8 MBytes 837 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 98.9 MBytes 829 Mbits/sec
But upload is not even half of download speed!
>iperf3 -c 192.168.12.133 -w 1MB
Connecting to host 192.168.12.133, port 5201
[ 4] local 192.168.12.21 port 57836 connected to 192.168.12.133 port 5201
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 4] 0.00-1.00 sec 20.8 MBytes 174 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 1.00-2.00 sec 32.9 MBytes 275 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 2.00-3.00 sec 30.5 MBytes 256 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 3.00-4.00 sec 29.0 MBytes 244 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 4.00-5.00 sec 31.0 MBytes 260 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 5.00-6.00 sec 30.6 MBytes 257 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 6.00-7.00 sec 30.6 MBytes 257 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 7.00-8.00 sec 31.1 MBytes 260 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 8.00-9.00 sec 29.8 MBytes 250 Mbits/sec
[ 4] 9.00-10.00 sec 30.2 MBytes 254 Mbits/sec
During upload.. CPU of the box isn't exactly maxed out either at only around 23%.. so I can't see an issue there..
NAME CPU USAGE
ethernet 3.2%
console 0%
firewall 0%
networking 15.5%
e-mail 0%
winbox 0.2%
logging 0%
management 0.7%
dhcp 0%
profiling 0%
queuing 0%
telnet 0%
bridging 3.7%
unclassified 0%
total 23.3%
I have tried to rule out ESX server being the bottleneck, and test with Macbook Pro. The results are the same.
My router config export can be found here:
http://whereisant.net/misc/export_compact.txt
Any ideas?