Thank you for your responses. I think I will avoid the widescreen patch as my Wife works from home. I realize that I have lost the flexibility of fooling around with my firewall as I did when I first installed Smoothwall years ago and we were not so dependant on our internet connection.

If we had true Layer7 in PFsense then you could block them on the word "facebook" alone….

You also mentioned LACP. I'm assuming that it's not configured in a way that it spans both switches, correct?

Quick - backup your config!!!! haha

the issue fixed it self… i dont know how

I agree that ESF would be far more knowledgeable and detailed however, I need tutorials over the phone with some basic and moderate techniques of configuration. I think it will take about an hour, and won't cost $400. At some point I may be willing to spend that money but right now I need to try this way and see how far I get

Interesting… JimP says "netgate guys" as though there is really any difference between the companies. The VPC wizard is not going to be in the "community edition" of pfSense anytime soon.

if it was a problem, we would have released a new version by now.

if it was a problem, we would have released an updated version by now.

If it installed correctly and easily before, it should also again. I'd WIPE the drive and reformat, deleting all partitions.  Use linux. Then reinstall pfsense. Is this a full install?  I'm assuming it is.

You can use a fixed dhcp lease so that your selected clients always get the same IP. The use the whitelist to bypass squid for those IPs. Steve