Recently setup a machine (Core2Quad on Intel DQ65CB with a 2 port Intel Gb NIC) with pfSense to replace the Huawei I've got - with the old unit I was getting around 700Mbps down speeds, with the pfSense setup I get about 100Mbps down and 50Mbps up.

Going back to the Huawei, speed goes straight back to normal.

I've configured the pfSense machine to be on VLAN10 with PPPoE, same as I have in the past for other fibre connections.  I'm obviously getting traffic passing through the firewall, CPU and RAM aren't maxing out, no firewall rules, no traffic shaping, just a very plain setup for a start.

I'm suspecting there is something else going on in the setup that I'm not aware of - the fact that it looks to me as though it has dropped back to effectively a 100/50Mbps connection suggests that the configuration for Gigatown may be slightly different to the normal UFB connections.

I should also mention that this is on a Spark provided Gigatown plan.

Anyone got any suggestions?