> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Chuck Mariotti [mailto:[email protected]] > Verzonden: woensdag 13 mei 2009 15:30 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: RE: [pfSense Support] RE: T1 Saturating - Windows update kills the connection... ?? > > > Thanks Jeppe... that's my feeling too. > > There are companies out there with 256k connections with dozens of users. > > It just doesn't make sense that downloading updates can saturate and make internet access useless. If that's the case, everyone on this list should be complaining about it all the time. It just doesn't make sense to me... maybe I just had too high an expectation for a T1. > > I'd understand if it was 20 computers or more... the available bandwidth would be so small, that windows update would appear to stall, other computers trying to do other things would be slow but in my mind... > > If 4 computers, then 1.5Mbit / 4 is the speed. > If 20 computers, then 1.5Mbit / 20 is the speed. > If 100 computers, then 1.5Mbit/100 is the speed. > > It should just get slower and divide the bandwidth evenly since there are no rules to shape it. > > I just remember 8 years ago, running windows update on Windows 2000 machines all hooked to a T1 in the middle of the night. I could easily get 10+ machines doing it all at the same time. Maybe back then the update downloads were so small it wasn't an issue? Not sure... But I do know it wouldn't crap out completely. > > Regards, > ChuckM
I was just typing a lenghty reply about this ;). What you say here is indeed how I imagine it should be. We use Smoothwall to host a 8Mbit down/1Mbit up connection and besides using QoS to limit the upload speed to 90%, no tweaks were made and things have been running fine for years. Like Jeppe suggested, I think the issue is with the new connection (probably regardless of how fast it is). You could try connecting only one computer to it and setting some (torrent?) application to download a bunch of files at, say, max. 90% of 1.5Mbit, and see how everything goes. The same goes for upload speed. If the situation doesn't improve, you may want to call your T1 provider. If it does, well, then perhaps capping the transfer rates is the way to go. My $0.02. Regards, Marijn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
