It did not happen with the other connection. But the previous firewall didn’t allow me to look at nice graphs and see it maxing out, etc… It just worked. It was twice as fast as you said. I hooked up the old connection and it is not dying with the 4 windows updates… in fact, it’s humming along… Unfortunately, I don’t have the resources at this time of night to try to get 8 or 12 PC’s running Windows update so I can try to max out the connection (since it’s twice the speed as the T1, I need at least twice the computers) to see what happens.
Yes, it is 1.5/1.5… I’m not sure how I can make a call that the T1 is at fault exactly. I see the traffic flowing and it’s capping at 1.5Mbit… if I cancel window update, it dropped way back down…. SpeedTest.net indicates 1.5/1.5… I’m kind of stuck… Chuck From: Jeppe Øland [mailto:jol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 3:28 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] RE: T1 Saturating - Windows update kills the connection... ?? During this new firewall installation, someone decided to run Windows Updates on a four computers. Previously, this would not have choked the network, but with the new firewall (and new T1), it is choking it. Choking it dead. The four machines appear to contend for connectivity but after a few minutes, a couple of them just stall, one slows way down to a crawl and another stills keeps going (slower). Trying to browse the web on another computer is pretty much impossible. It's all bogged down. It didn't happen with the old connection right? (sure it was faster, but Microsofts servers are way faster than that so it shouldn't matter) Sounds like there is a problem with the new connection if you ask me. Is it a full duplex 1.5/1.5 connection? Regards, -Jeppe
