> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Tortise <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I had a P 500 III CPU with 1G of RAM and now a P 400II with 756M RAM > running > > embedded (512M CF) 1.2.3 and three Intel 1000GT's. One WAN, Two LAN. > LAN > > 2 is LAN1 10.a.b+1.c.d. (/24), both performed much the same. > > > > The cable download speed has just been upgraded from 4MBps to 10Mbps > however > > downloads on pfSense are still limited to 4Mbps, despite several > modem power > > cycles. A notebook direct connected to the cable modem does indeed > get > > 10Mbps suggesting pfsense is the bottleneck. > > > > The book and http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Hardware_requirements > suggest > > to me I should be getting 20-40Mbps throughput. > > > > Can anyone suggest how I can investigate from here? > > > > =Traffic shaping enabled? > > Yes! OK now disabled, that's doubled it to 8Mbps. As its evening > here it might be high traffic cutting it down from 10 to 8, I'll > try again during a lower demand time. > Thanks Chris. Out of interest wouldn't a larger CPU increase the > shapers limits? (there was little difference in the 400 and 500, > I would have expected some difference?) > Last test from http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/ was 9.5Mbps, so I guess that's > the answer. (Looks to read book's traffic shaper section....) >
>From my memory you tell the shaper the bandwidth of your connection it order >for it to work. As a result the value set here is you upper limit regardless >of CPU > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
