Sorry for the delay, too much going on recently. Once I had a chance to do some more digging, turned out it did seem to be some kind of power settings, with the box "sleeping" after short periods of idle time. The box is headless, but none of the lights indicated this and it was extremely fast to come back up after sleep. I never found any settings for this in the GUI, and disabling powerD didn't help, so I just installed from scratch since I was seeing other issues anyway. It's resolved now. I hope this was abnormal (new user to pfSense and the first time I've upgraded; I hope most upgrades go more smoothly than this). doktornotor, thanks for the reply, I guess. I'm new to pfSense and not a networking expert. Maybe it's not an ideal setup, but I'm willing to learn, and open to constructive feedback. To answer your questions, WAN is a cable modem, no PPPoE or anything going on. I went the bridge route because it made sense for the hardware I had at the time and I figured I could add a switch later if needed. I've read it's not ideal, but haven't seen downsides mentioned other than performance, which is not affecting me for now; if you have more to add, or why you think this issue would be at all related to the bridge, please do so, so others can learn. Snort was something new to play with since I haven't had the opportunity before, which I may not keep. I like the proxy because not all of my devices can run Privoxy natively.

Thanks. Also protected, if you have Block Bogon/Private networks enabled on WAN.

I deleted the settings of wan fail over and the  latency  is back to 8 to 15 This is supposed to happen or I do something wrong ? why the latency go high when there is wan fail over i running pfsense 2.1.5

Hum, first idea would have been wireless dropouts. I get similar when streaming from Mini/MBP to ATV but always put it down to wireless. The iMac isn't going into power save on the screen/computer is it and cutting off the airplay ? Does it work if you just extend the screen onto the ATV (so mirroring in OS X) then drag iTunes onto the TV and maximise ? If that works with no dropouts then it would suggest a specific iTunes/Mabericks AirPlay issue. I assume it works fine with iPhone/iPad ?

Shellcmd + Filer packages.

My main background is with Cisco switches and routers,  however in terms of security appliances I've never messed with any ASA's.  At work I use Sophos UTM which I actually love but from the research I've done it doesn't look like I can setup an OpenVPN tunnel to PIA with a kill switch from UTM.  It's the main reason I picked pfSense over it.

Thanks so much for the help and support.  I've removed the command from shellcmd.  Thanks!

Assuming you're on the same layer 2 as the devices you want to find. Install the nmap package (System > Packages) Pick the interface you want (e.g. LAN) Enter the LAN subnet (e.g. 192.168.1.0/24) Pick ARP for the scan type Not much can hide from that.

Well - I think this whole project was just to see the numbers change anyway and little to do with actual internet performance. So, mission accomplished I guess?  The numbers look fine.

1.  I don't see any 172.16.16.0/24 hosts on your diagram.  Where are they connected? 2. When you say the following: Created Defualt gateway in pf sense and configured static route 172.16.16.0/24  192.268.1.254 Just to clarify, what device did you create your static route on?

Move elsewhere if producing some WDS/wifi repeater is your goal. This is NOT the project you want. At all.

Use packet capture and wireshark, inspect SIP packets, you should find answer there.

@dbennett: This is affecting production and REALLY need some advice. Have a look here if it is THAT urgent. That's what they are there for!

Thought I would update this post with a resolution. The installation found a RAID controller (or software RAID through the BIOS) and assumed that I was using RAID even through there was only 1 HDD and BIOS was set to SATA. The solution was in the pfSense installation troubleshooting guide at the very bottom of that screen;  going to a prompt, running a command telling it ‘No RAID’ and then booting (VERY condensed).  Was very simple and allowed me to continue using 5 servers. Thanks again to everyone that posted! https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#.22Fake.22_RAID_cards_with_a_GRAID_error

The only trick her is if you're going to slowly migrate services over from Endian to pfSense, or if you're going to try and configure everything and then just flip the switch.  I moved to pfSense from MS ISA Server 2 years ago.  I set up the pfSense box to run in tandem with the ISA server and started migrating everything over bit by bit.  After a week of migrating & testing, I shut down the ISA server, changed the pfSense LAN/WAN IPs to that of the ISA Server and then just carried on.  My users were none the wiser.