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These speeds tests were going through a Mullvad (which occasionally dips), but the results were too consistently low to be a coincidence.
These speeds tests were going through Mullvad, which occasionally is inconsistent, but the results remained consistently lower than the previous configuration.
I reverted the WAN back to the original NIC, and the download speeds returned to more average results immediately so it became obvious that something was not right with this setup.
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## Conclusion
Although I am not sure why passing through a Realtek NIC to an OPNsense VM causes so much degradation in throughput, I am glad that there is a workaround. If I get my hands on another NIC, I will try to see if the issue can be reproduced.
Although I am not sure why passing through a Realtek NIC to an OPNsense VM causes so much degradation in throughput, I am glad that there is a workaround. If I get ahold of another NIC, I would be interested in trying to reproduce the issue.