Also, are you doing this hardwired or over wireless?
Sure. Everything is hardwired. I have nothing else plugged in. It goes from the modem to the MX65. Then i have one cable going from port 4 to a computer. That's all that is connected. I checked these settings. I believe everything is correct in here. Is there any other settings that could effect this? Thanks for the help.
Does that computer have any group policy being applied to it?
What version is the MX running on?
Doesn't sound like it from what you have said though.
Hmm..this is an interesting one. Something must be slowing it down, but all the obvious choices seem to be fine.
What about upload? It the circuit synchronous (150 down and 150 up) or is your upload capped at like 10 or 20 mbps etc.
Try running a throughput test directly from the MX itself
Yea i am getting 70Mbps.
What I mean is, when you run these speedtests, is there any other traffic passing at the same time from a different FW or something through the ISP device?
Assuming your modem connects directly to the MX, and the MX is flying solo right now and nothing else is involved? Or does that modem have other devices connected that might be pushing traffic while your testing the speed? Probably not, just making sure 😃
I doubt it is a hardware issue, since you said they gave you a new unit, and the old and new one are both showing a cap at 50Mbps.
I was going to say maybe try the test at night when nobody is in the office, but by the sound of it, you've run it so many times that it can't be a coincidence.
If everything is connecting at 1Gbps Full Duplex, and you don't have any AMP/IPS/throttling/traffic-shaping/VPN features in use, then you should certainly be able to hit 150Mbps easily. Device won't have any problem with that speed.
Unless its some sort of cabling layer 1 issue (doubtful, but can't hurt to swap out the Ethernet cable, reboot the MX), I'm fresh out of ideas.
@JohnInge wrote:I just opened a support case myself regarding this. I first noticed that I only had 100Mb Full Duplex, thanks for that tip. Changed the network cable and got 1GB Full Duplex. Then it showed 250Mb download/upload with cable connected. Throughput in Live Tools is 370. Using the cable that is connected to the MX65 in Internet 1 gives 500/500 every time.
So I am still wondering if it is normal that the MX65 takes this much of the capacity, when only one device is taking speed... will post if I get an answer from Meraki support.
MX65 can only push around 250Mbps throughput as a hardware limitation.
See the sizing chart here:
https://meraki.cisco.com/lib/pdf/meraki_whitepaper_mx_sizing_guide.pdf
That should be a limitation on the WAN interfaces, not LAN interfaces though if I'm reading it correctly. So if you did say an iPerf test through two LAN ports it should go higher.
