Sorry, those pairs are Max / Average number to clarify. -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Mariotti [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] RE: T1 Saturating - Windows update kills the connection... ??
Great suggestions everyone. Thanks... I looked up the data report on AllStreams system for the last 24 hours. In 534.5 bytes/sec 298.2 bytes/sec Out 532.2 bytes/sec 310.5 bytes/sec So I think this implies that we are not hitting the max on the T1... my math sucks for this stuff (I never seem to get it right), but 1.5Mbit/sec (T1) should be 192500 bytes/sec... that doesn't make sense. Regards, ChuckM -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] RE: T1 Saturating - Windows update kills the connection... ?? On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Chuck Mariotti <[email protected]> wrote: > To clarify further... > > In this situation, we are downgrading to a T1 (1.5Mbit/1.5Mbit) connection > from a new service provider. The current connection is 3Mbit/3Mbit, works, > but is insanely expensive (way more than twice the price). Locked into a > service agreement. Switching will basically save enough money to not have to > lay a person off... So it's pretty important than this works acceptably. > > 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. > > I have removed the dual WAN situation from the puzzle. Restored Factory > Defaults and set up pfSense with a single IP and default rules. It is still > doing this. > > Unfortunately, I'm really not sure if this saturation is exactly what I > should be expecting... I've never really had this slow a network nor have I > had the need to bog it down, so I've never run into this. Unfortunately, this > isn't acceptable so I need to find a solution. I would have throught that > pfSense would be able to evenly distribute the requests an dataflow. > > I did replace the pfSense box with a cheapo DD-wrt router, just to see if the > same results happen. And they did... 1.5Mbit cap maxed out... crawling > updates, unable to browse the web. > Slowing down considerably when under full load is normal, slowing to the point that sites don't load anymore when you're just running a few Windows updates is definitely not. Sounds like there's something wrong with the T1, or the CPE it's plugged into, whatever has your CSU/DSU. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
