It would help others if you were to actually describe the problems you had been having and what you did to resolve them.

I recently had a similar problem that turned out be the tcp receive window set too small on the client computer (Win XP). Does it make any difference which internal computer you use? What if you try to download more than one file on the same machine, can you max out the link then? What if you try to fetch the file from the pfSense box itself? fetch -o /dev/null http://centos.pop.com.br/5.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-1of8.iso This doesn't store the file so don't worry about space. Ctrl-C to stop downloading! Steve Edit: Clearly you know how to Ctl-C!  ::)

Thanks for the link. Just the information I needed! I really did search before posting; found many other hits, but, not this one or any that answered my question.

@johnodon: Man was that thing friggin chatty!!! The 'talky toaster' of printers?  ;) Steve

Booting the same machine from an Ubuntu USB stick also showed no restriction so I investigated further. It turned out to be the tcp receive window incorrectly set in Windows XP. It's supposed to have auto scaling but it didn't seem to be working, setting a few registry keys solved it. See: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/OStune/winxp/winxp_stepbystep.html Steve

Thx Sub! :) @submicron: Slightly off topic, but Varnish is a superior reverse proxy, especially for a very high performance network.  Not sure I'd combine the proxy and firewall functions on the same box.

no problem. PFSENSE rocks and i have "turned" at least 3 people onto this and we have been using since 1.2.3 and started testing 2.0 and have not looked back. :)

Nice to hear! Thanks for your feedback. Have fun :-)

Are you using the ip address of the server or a dns to reach it? Just a thought…

thanks! :)

thanks i will try it!

Have you read this: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Interface_Bridges Not much there though. You shouldn't need to select static/dhcp etc for bridged interfaces, they will all take their values from the interface you're bridging to. Steve Edit: You could read through this thread as well. Edit: Hmm, I going to have to play around with this but from reading through this stuff it seems you have to: Create a bridge interface, br0. (you'll need to assign at least one interface to it) Assign br0 to be LAN. Add other interfaces to the bridge. This seems to be causing much confusion and I can why since it seems more logical to create a bridge and then add the lan interface to it. I'll be very interested to see how this works out for you.