I monitor and log my latency both internally and WAN/External. I notice that internally things range on average from 0ms (about 100-150 microseconds on cross connects or p2p) to about 1-2ms and externally things range from 1-2ms all the way up to 20ms at times. I wish I knew what I could do to make that more consistant.

It gets mentioned quite a bit in most networking topics like that. (And sometimes if it isn't, I'll chime in and mention it :-)

If you are asking how to allow access to pfSense's webConfigurator from the Internet, keep in mind that it isn't considered good practice. Check http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=232 from which I quote: To proactively protect your network from issues like this that may be discovered in the future, restrict access to the management interface as much as possible. First, never open any web management interface’s port to the entire Internet! If you require access from the WAN side, be as restrictive as possible with source IPs or networks. Using a VPN connection and accessing the admin interface by internal IP over VPN is a more secure solution for remote administration. You should also restrict management access on your internal network in many environments. If you’re administering a small home network, you probably don’t care. If it’s a network with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of devices, restricting access internally is strongly recommended. There is a howto on the doc site describing how restrict management access in pfSense. You should investigate similar controls on your other web managed devices.

HDD's always come out and either get picked up/dropped off seperately or packed in plastic and put on a backpack. Heavy but much less vibration :) Incase someone searches and finds this later on - it really did weigh 280 lbs. I got it down to about 125 lbs by removing the side & top panels, doors and all brackets (and the batteries that were 200# each). I'll post a picture in a few.

@aby: what about truecrypt?? @aby: can any one suggest me an opensource thing to encrypt my laptop harddisk. @truecypt: T r u e C r y p t Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux Main Features: Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive. Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).

So apparently it's a driver setting or somesuch.  I left the WD tool to run and came back to find the machine had gone to sleep.  So I changed the power setting to high power so it wouldn't sleep anymore. The pauses disappeared. So now I need to figure out what setting in the power options is making it act that way.

I would say bit torrent as well. One thing you could do is add an alias for hosts and add all those hosts to that alias and set up a block rule, this way they would get blocked but not logged (so you longs will not get spammed any more) Another option is to install a package such as IPBlock List or Country Block and block them that way. Country Block works great to block other country IP addresses, but it wont work if you need other countries to access your resources.

Possible use HDD with hardware AES256 sequrity as Toshiba MK1661GSY/ MK6461GSY ?

There isn't enough demand to have a board dedicated to just that. General Discussion would be an OK place for that.

Or in some forums you have reputition(thumbs up/down) but [SOLVED] is still manual labor of original poster

The application failed.  After several weeks working properly it stopped recording several days ago and I've lost track of my bandwidth for good. Any idea why suddenly it stopped working?

thank you soo much…

I don't show bandwidthd as being 2.0, and there are different squid packages for 1.2.3 branch and 2.0 branch.

May I ask why you have that router between your users and pfsense?  Is it natting or just routing? Why not just put the users on the pfsense lan?  If your router supplies wireless, then just use it as an accespoint.