Please understand that statistics bear out that most issues are are hardware based, so within the body of your posts please include all your hardware information (including OS version). This will help volunteer forum members provide timely answers. In some cases, answers will come in the form of links, especially if your question has been asked and answered many times before. If you should choose to cut corners and ignore the requested info, your post may be ignored. Please respect the forum volunteers for the time and efforts they so generously provide for free! Please understand that statistics bear out that most issues are are hardware based, so within the body of your posts please include all your hardware information (including OS version). This will help volunteer forum members provide timely answers.

In some cases, answers will come in the form of links, especially if your question has been asked and answered many times before. If you should choose to cut corners and ignore the requested info, your post may be ignored. Please respect the forum volunteers for the time and efforts they so generously provide for free! Sure you do the copper and I do the optics. Heck I'd do optics to everything if I could afford it, lol, lower latency, light speed, ect. I just like the idea of running a laser light networking, but all in due time, maybe one of these days I'll run 4Gb to all the workstations, but I bet in the years to come everyone will be running 10Gb copper and the big thing by then will be 100Gb backbones in the home and small business, lol.

Yep, sounds like a plan. I'm going to try iperf from a live CD distro first just for poops and giggles then if I get the same results I'll put the Intel 10Gb NICs in and test again with FreeNAS, if the speeds are still slow try the live CD again, if still slow I'll move slots and test again.

So, it'll be a bit before all this is done but I'll post back my results and I'll be sure to keep logs of the results and changes. Chances are I won't do it today. Going to chill a bit today and change the oil on the wife's van, so likely later this week.

If I find those Chelsio cards look to be the problem then they are definitely heading back to where I bought them and I'll find some other module cards to replace them. I'd really like to keep the 10Gb fiber and do more fiber stuff in the months to come which means I'll also need more USB 3 and 3.1 devices to try and use the 10Gb as much as possible, lol.

Click to expand.I don't think that's true. What we've seen so far is that in the period of 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, that ethernet went from 10M to 100M to 1G to 10G, with commodity hardware availability trailing out a few years. Except for the 10G jump. Where it's 2016 and we're still not seeing cheap 10G. I think this is basically because we hit a point where networking was generally 'fast enough' and that next jump to 10G might very well be *it* for consumer networking for at least another decade.

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Yea, if you would, that would be great! I've been running 'iperf -s' (default) and 'iperf -s -w 512k' and sometimes with a -P 2 or 4 So far the fastest I'm seeing is about 3.75 Gb/s one direction and about 2Gb/s the other which got me thinking today, maybe I have dirty lenses? So I've been looking into ways to properly clean the modules as the cables are pretty easy to clean with a lint free cloth and some isopropyl, basically wet, then dry GENTLY!

Lol and did some digging on cleaning modules but not much as I got busy with some house hold duties. I still haven't had a chance to run tests with a live CD. So still have much on my list to do. Click to expand.Very true! I think 10Gb will come to homes since we are now seeing more and more machines that are able to handle 10Gb and with 1Gb internet connections coming to the home, but it is still likely a ways out, but then following that it will likely be much longer before we see further upgrades unless quantum computing starts coming to the homes too, but I don't see that happening in our lifetimes for reasons I care not to debate I mean heck, look how long we were on 10/100 until we started seeing 1Gb as a standard. Heck, I'm still swapping switches out here and there that are 10/100, lol! I think running fiber is fun in it's own way and a GREAT learning experience as frustrating as it is at times!

Anyhow, I'm going to get back at it, I have some other stuff I need to get done, a network monitoring application to troubleshoot, ect. As soon as I know more I'll be posting it up. I'd really like to see the connection capable of 8, 9, preferably 10+Gb/s, even if I don't fully use it, it'll give me further knowledge, experience, bragging rights,: D ect. FreeNAS Server1: Supermicro X9SLR-F, Xeon E5-1620 v2, 96GB ECC Memory, LSI 9201-16i HBA x2, Chelsio T520-CR 10Gbe, 24 x 3TB WD-Reds (12 x 2 Mirrors) FreeNAS Server2: Supermicro X9SLR-F, Xeon E5-1620 v2, 32GB ECC Memory, LSI 9201-16i HBA, Intel X520-DA2 10Gbe, 12 x 3TB WD-Reds (2 x 6disk RaidZ2) FreeNAS Server3: Asrockrack E3C224, Xeon E3-1225 v3, 32GB ECC Memory, LSI 9201-16i HBA, 12 x 3TB WD-Reds (2 x 6disk RaidZ2) FreeNAS Server4: Asrockrack E3C224, Xeon E3-1225 v3, 32GB ECC Memory, LSI 9211-8i HBA x2, 12 x 3TB WD-Reds (2 x 6disk RaidZ2). FreeNAS Server1: Supermicro X9SLR-F, Xeon E5-1620 v2, 96GB ECC Memory, LSI 9201-16i HBA x2, Chelsio T520-CR 10Gbe, 24 x 3TB WD-Reds (12 x 2 Mirrors) FreeNAS Server2: Supermicro X9SLR-F, Xeon E5-1620 v2, 32GB ECC Memory, LSI 9201-16i HBA, Intel X520-DA2 10Gbe, 12 x 3TB WD-Reds (2 x 6disk RaidZ2) FreeNAS Server3: Asrockrack E3C224, Xeon E3-1225 v3, 32GB ECC Memory, LSI 9201-16i HBA, 12 x 3TB WD-Reds (2 x 6disk RaidZ2) FreeNAS Server4: Asrockrack E3C224, Xeon E3-1225 v3, 32GB ECC Memory, LSI 9211-8i HBA x2, 12 x 3TB WD-Reds (2 x 6disk RaidZ2). Click to expand.Oh!

I couldn't agree more! My skills are VERY handy, I can repair cars, repair the house, repair computers, networks, I'm a ham radio operator that wires up antennas, connects things together, ect.

I have NO programming skills, but if it can talk I can RTFM and dig around the web to figure out how to make it talk or fly by the seat of my pants and figure it out. I was raised on welfare and REFUSE to go back to it. I'm self employed, granted I don't make a lot but I do better than I would flipping burgers! So I agree and am happy and at the same time not, I wish I could know and learn more faster. Click to expand.Almost forgot to reply to this. I fired up the netstat and yea, no errors, the switch even showed no errors on the interfaces and I only have 3ft (1 Meter) jumpers, all is good but for some stupid reason I still am not able to get more than 3.75Gb one direction.

The other direction I'm seeing 2Gb and it's driving me crazy!!!! I've done iperf against the machine itself and it shows a potential of something like 48 or 49Gb/s. I've even dd'd the drives and they are capable of 29 to 39Gb/s with encryption enabled. I've tried iperf to a windows virtual machine. Yea that was funny, 1. Bitte Keine Werbung Einwerfen Download. 2Gb/s TOP speed, lol!! So I don't know what's going on.

I still haven't shut down the machines and loaded a live CD yet and tried something like a direct connect. Coin Hack Whirled Peace. I should do that right now while I'm thinking about it now that I'm done transferring data on the server. I even tried turning STP off on the switch, that made no difference.