Gigahub 2.0 PPPoE Issues
Hey everyone,
I don't know what to do with that mess of a Giga Hub 2.0 for anyone trying to run a homelab. I know this issue has been reported by many people here already, but I’ve done a ton of due diligence testing every configuration possible and I'm still stuck at a dead end...
I am on the 1.5G / 1G fiber plan in Quebec. If I plug my gaming PC directly into the Giga Hub 10G port, I pull 1.6 Gbps down easy.
The nightmare starts when routing to my firewall. I run bare-metal OPNsense on a Sophos XG230 Rev 2 (i7-6700T, Intel 10G NIC). Local iperf3 routing tests push an easy 9.5 Gbps, so the hardware is not the bottleneck.
Here is the behavior I am seeing:
- PPPoE Passthrough: Hard capped at ~815 Mbps down. I checked
top -aSHon the firewall during the test to see if FreeBSD’s single-threaded PPPoE was choking a core. Nope. The worker threads are coasting at 25% to 30% utilization. The i7-6700T can easily handle multi-gigabit routing, and also sometimes I did get like 1.2 Gbits speed no way to understand or replicate why. - Advanced DMZ: Completely unstable. Yesterday I toggled ADMZ and actually saw my full 1.6 Gbps. Today? I can't replicate it at all. It dropped right back to the same ~800 Mbps ceiling as PPPoE. It seems like the second the lease syncs, the Hub falls out of its hardware-acceleration path and chokes.
- The Port 443 Hijack: On top of the speed drops, when ADMZ is active, the Giga Hub swallows inbound traffic on port 443. I ran a
tcpdumpon the WAN interface and I can see inbound SYN packets arriving on port 80, but absolutely zero inbound packets ever hit on port 443. The Hub completely intercepts it...
Right now, the only way I can get my full 1.6 Gbps down to my firewall is to run a standard Double NAT setup....
Has anyone actually found a way to get the Giga Hub 2.0 to stop throttling PPPoE passthrough? Or just any success. Even ADMZ Is a mess with the 80/443 port issues...
I am seriously considering just buying a WAS-110 SFP+ module...