We have 2 offices located about a mile apart.
We just increased the speed from Cox to 500 mbps upload and download to match what the other building already has.
I get the full 500mbps at both buildings when I test speed.
If I transfer a file between buildings I can only get 23mbps?
We don't use the advanced security features but do use the VPN. I was under the impression we should be able to get 300mbps vpn throughput.
Am I missing something about the way this all works, or does it seem like something is not right?
Is my thinking completely wrong?
Are you using the Auto-VPN / SD-WAN feature to connect the two sites?
Can you run a direct network test between machines at each site using something like LAN speed test?
You definitely should get better than that. I have an MX65 at home and it AutoVPNs into an MX250 in the datacentre. The connections at each end are 500/500 and I get more than 85Mbps real throughput in both directions on file transfers etc.
Yes both these buildings are using the autovpn. I was doing the testing with iperf3.
You might need to lower the max frame size, perhaps there is something in between with a lower value that is causing larger packets to get fragmented (file transfers etc.)
Are you running the stable firmware release or better? There were a bunch of recent bug fixes around fragmentation and AutoVPN.
both are on.
Current version: MX 18.105