Slow ISP bandwidth through PA-3020

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Slow ISP bandwidth through PA-3020

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We upgraded to a 1gb/s internet connection from a 50mb/s on Friday.  For some reason we are only seeing a max of maybe 250-300mb/s but in most cases we are at 175mb/s.

 

We have a PA-3020, with App-ID enabled and Threat.  We did our research before upgrading and thought we would see closer to 1gb/s with this firewall.

 

Any ideas on what we can check for? 

 

When we remove the PA from the mix, we are over 900mb/s.

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@calumetcounty 

Do you have any QoS enabled?

How many max sessions you have?

 

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MP

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We are a fairly small organization with about 300 staff.

Not quite sure where to look for the max sessions.

 

As far as qos for inbound/oubound traffic, there is one policy that was added as our Webex experience was poor.  The QOS seemed to resolve it.  

 

Found session count.  4780 / 262142

 

We are using 3% management and 5% dataplane.

@calumetcounty,

You'll want to take a look at that QoS policy or post the configuration here so that we can take a look at it. You could easily have that misconfigured so that the firewall isn't attempting to use full bandwidth due to QoS. 

The policy is pretty basic, set to real-time with no bandwidth limit. using the default for tunneled traffic.

 

I removed the policy and tested with Google speed test and the results were the same.

@calumetcounty  Are you doing any SSL decryption?

 

--edit-- Also try using this site as a confirmation of throughput testing.  https://www.thinkbroadband.com/download in the past working with Palo TAC engineering team they recommended using more of a "file transfer" versus the theoretical throughput testing sites.

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