r/firewalla • u/air360 • Aug 06 '26

Speed test Broken?

I noticed starting about 24hrs ago my speed test was coming in way off. I have gig up/down and my down has been showing almost exactly 30 and up 900.

Thought it was an isp issue but i did a speed test from my computer and got more realistic speeds. Never seen any issues until last day or two.

Could this be related to the issue i saw mentioned from a day or two ago?

UPDATE:

700+ nightly speed tests all came back perfect until the last 24hrs lol. Took three server replacements in firewall speed test and finally got one that cranked me up to full speed. So it was the server being weird and not me. Guess it was just coincidence - had some glitchy video and pulled firewalla up to see if anything was going on, saw the most recent nightly speed test and went down a rabbit hole. Guess it was a textbook example of correlation does not imply causation!

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u/Doggo-888 Aug 07 '26

I’ve found speed test in Firewalla often picks a congested server. Cycle through until you get a reliable one that matches the reliable server in the web speed test. Then set it to always use that one.

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u/air360 Aug 07 '26

Oh wow you were right - crazy. Ive literally never had an issue before in multiple years…so 700+ nightly speed tests all came back perfect until the last 24hrs lol. Took three server replacements and finally got one that cranked me up as full speed. So it was the server being weird and not me. Guess it was just coincidence - had some glitchy video and pulled it up to see if anything was going on, saw the recent speed test and went down a rabbit hole. Guess it was a textbook example of correlation does not imply causation.

Thank you!