Proxmox 5.4 - NIC unable to achieve internet speeds higher than 10 Mbit/s

JorgePeixinho

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Proxmox 5.4
pve-manager/5.4-15/d0ec33c6 (running kernel: 4.15.18-30-pve)
(I know the version is old, but the server is in Africa, in the middle of nowhere, and I am 8000 km away.) :cool:

This equipment has been running for at least 6 years. 24/7, 365 days a year.
The internet connection was 10 Mbit/s (fast for that area) and always worked very well.
A week ago, the ISP increased the speed to 20Mb.
I've asked trusted friend to connect is laptop to the cable that connects fro isp router to the server, and he get 20 Mbit/s download and 20 Mbit/s upload.
But when I test the speed from the Proxmox server, any virtual machine, or even any machine on the local network, I always get less than 10 Mbit/s.

Can anyone help me here?
Thank you in advance.



root@pve:~# speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from UNITEL (105.174.xx.xxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Africell DRC (Kinshasa) [552.26 km]: 91.956 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 6.89 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 7.84 Mbit/s



root@pve:~# modinfo igb | grep "^version"
version: 5.3.5.18
root@pve:~# lspci -nnk | grep -A2 Ethernet
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company NC362i Integrated Dual port Gigabit Server Adapter [103c:323f]
Kernel driver in use: igb
--
02:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company NC362i Integrated Dual port Gigabit Server Adapter [103c:323f]
Kernel driver in use: igb



enp2s0f0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether d4:85:64:4b:6e:f2 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 95842160 bytes 103926890495 (96.7 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 2632 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 74424406 bytes 46902677345 (43.6 GiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

enp2s0f1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether d4:85:64:4b:6e:f3 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 42144895 bytes 47717420590 (44.4 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 28459912 bytes 6160128891 (5.7 GiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 18977 bytes 1829530 (1.7 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 18977 bytes 1829530 (1.7 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

tap101i0: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether d6:62:c8:49:cd:83 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1396647 bytes 546604454 (521.2 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2003921 bytes 751944316 (717.1 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

tap101i1: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 02:5b:de:e3:ce:40 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 2668357 bytes 831163585 (792.6 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2620221 bytes 1091395610 (1.0 GiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

tap104i0: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether be:52:5c:c1:20:8d txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 40615991 bytes 45535257154 (42.4 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 29635694 bytes 6815435015 (6.3 GiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

tap104i1: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 8e:3a:97:58:24:a5 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 28381263 bytes 6155410665 (5.7 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 42074240 bytes 47713001014 (44.4 GiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

veth100i0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether fe:ad:ac:84:5f:c9 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 363799 bytes 234203532 (223.3 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1382616 bytes 357811599 (341.2 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

veth102i0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether fe:4e:cc:36:c9:36 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 34828623 bytes 2325861663 (2.1 GiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 67660407 bytes 97851436995 (91.1 GiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

vmbr0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.254.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.254.255
inet6 fe80::d685:64ff:fe4b:6ef2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether d4:85:64:4b:6e:f2 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1285328 bytes 602075040 (574.1 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 4424 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 320579 bytes 230225931 (219.5 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

vmbr1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::d685:64ff:fe4b:6ef3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether d4:85:64:4b:6e:f3 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1805 bytes 594033 (580.1 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 133 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 36 bytes 2616 (2.5 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
 
speedtest-cli in this version is broken. Try a different speed test utility instead.
 

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