Home LAN (Cat5e vs WiFi) network throughputs

Home LAN zones

• Area 1: 10+ Gb
• VMware Virtual Network within single VMware ESXi hypervisor
• physically unlimited network, limited only by software and server hardware
• Area 2: 1Gb
• 1 Gb LAN over Cat5e structured cabling
• Area 3 : WiFi 5 (802.11ac)
•  Amazon eero Mesh (core AP)
• Gateway eero 6 (2nd Floor - work room)
•  Area 4a : WiFi 5 (802.11ac)
•  Amazon eero Mesh (AP extender connected to core AP over wireless back-haul)
• eero 6 Extender 1 (1st Floor - living room)
• Area 4b : WiFi 5 (802.11ac)
• Amazon eero Mesh (AP extender connected to core AP over wireless back-haul)
• eero 6 Extender 2 (1st Floor - guest room)

Network Devices 

• 192.168.8.11 wired connection @ Area 1
• iperf server on VMware VM with FreeBSD 14.2 in home lab rack
• VMXNET3 
• 192.168.8.12 wired connection @ Area 1 
• iperf client on VMware VM with FreeBSD 14.2 in home lab rack
• VMXNET3 
• 10.0.4.214 wired connection @ Area 2
• iperf client on MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016) with MacOS Monteray (12.7.6)
• 1 Gb USB NIC
• 10.0.4.74 @ 802.11ac wireless connection @ various Areas
• iperf client on MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016) with MacOS Monteray (12.7.6)
• WiFi 802.11ac (Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.77.111.1 AirPortDriverBrcmNIC-1710.4)

Network Throughput Methodology 

Server @ Area 1 (192.168.8.11)

• iperf3 -s 

Clients @ various areas 

• upload
• iperf3 -c 192.168.8.11 -t60 -i5 -P4
• download
• iperf3 -c 192.168.8.11 -t60 -i5 -P4 -R

iPerf Throughput Tests

Throughput within Area 1 (192.168.8.11 <---> 192.168.8.12) 

• Expected Throughput: 10+ Gbits/sec 
• Upload: 13.8 Gbits/sec
• Download: 13.8 Gbits/sec

Throughput between Area 1 and Area 2 (192.168.8.11 <---> 10.0.4.214) 

• Expected Throughput: 1000 Mbit/s
• Upload: 790 Mbits/sec 
• Download: 932 Mbits/sec

Throughput between Area 1 and Area 3 (192.168.8.11 <---> 10.0.4.74) 

• Expected Throughput:
• ~200-300 Mbps for single-stream devices
• ~500-700 Mbps for devices with 2 or 3 spatial streams in good conditions
• In optimal conditions, with high-end devices and close proximity to the router, speeds can reach ~900 Mbps or slightly higher, approaching Gigabit Ethernet speeds. 
• Upload: 532 Mbits/sec
• Download: 651 Mbits/sec

Throughput between Area 1 and Area 4a (192.168.8.11 <---> 10.0.4.74) 

• Expected Throughput:
• ~200-300 Mbps for single-stream devices
• ~500-700 Mbps for devices with 2 or 3 spatial streams in good conditions
• In optimal conditions, with high-end devices and close proximity to the router, speeds can reach ~900 Mbps or slightly higher, approaching Gigabit Ethernet speeds. 
• Upload: 97 Mbits/sec
• Download: 126 Mbits/sec

Throughput between Area 1 and Area 4b (192.168.8.11 <---> 10.0.4.74) 

• Expected Throughput:
• ~200-300 Mbps for single-stream devices
• ~500-700 Mbps for devices with 2 or 3 spatial streams in good conditions
• In optimal conditions, with high-end devices and close proximity to the router, speeds can reach ~900 Mbps or slightly higher, approaching Gigabit Ethernet speeds. 
• Upload: 78 Mbits/sec
• Download: 114 Mbits/sec

 

 

 

FreeBSD 14.3 - Laptop computer with Intel Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) Wireless-AC 9260

FreeBSD 14.3 should have significantly improved support of WiFi adapters. 

Let's test it in Dell Precision 5530 with Intel Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) Wireless-AC 9x6x [Thunder Peak].

IPv6 - Part 3 - FreeBSD IPv6 configuration for Vodafone (ex-UPC)

Vodafone is one of the internet providers I use in my home lab setup here in Czechia.

I have been told they can enable IPv6 in my modem/router on request and it is not enabled by default. Anyway, it took them few minutes to reconfigure my modem/router to support IPv6. After this reconfiguratio, I connected my FreeBSD machine to the network segment we use as point-to-point (P2P /30) for IPv4. For IPv6, there is /64 subnet, where I can connect my IPv6 device.

Logical Network schema is depicted below.

Logical Network Schema

Let's start with configuration.

Public DNS Servers (Resolvers)

While writing my blog post series about IPv6, I realized it would be useful to document publicly available DNS servers. 

In this blog post I will documente DNS IP addresses of DNS Servers from Google, Clouflare, Quad9, Cisco's OpenDNS.

There are weel know IPv4 DNS addresses like 8.8.8.8  and 8.8.4.4, but there are others. DNS Servers are nowadays very usefull for secuurity protection like Phishing Protection, Optional content filtering, etc.

And last but not least, do you know IPv6 addresses of those DNS services.

IPv6 - Part 4 - FreeBSD IPv6 configuration for Starnet

Starnet is one of the internet providers I use in my home lab setup here in Czechia.

I have been told they are IPv6 ready, so I connected my FreeBSD machine to the network segment we use as point-to-point (P2P /30) for IPv4. For IPv6, there is /64 subnet, where I can connect my IPv6 device.

Logical Network schema is depicted below.

Logical Network Schema

 

Let's start with configuration.