thanks! keasley - it's 5000JPY/mo or about 50USD/mo.  it costs about 300usd to setup, but they have a campaign to make it free w/ 2yr contract :)

You will do just fine.

I'm getting a P4 box tomorrow from my work I hope.. I have a 105Mbit connection I'll probably be doing some testing and report back my results..  Is the 200Mbit split between the 2 nics?  If that's the case then I don't see where their be a problem..  Unless like previous posted it's the cards themselves.. And you could get a dual-gigabit intel nic and see how that does..

Yeah mine can do that too..  I'm trying to get rid of all extra hardware :)  Thanks though.

The sk NICs are PCI and they share a single bus so their performance will always be worse. Should be better than that though, a lot better. Pretty sure I saw 500Mbps sk-sk. Steve

Actually - It was you who mentioned this to someone else earlier (much earlier) and got me to take at look at that.  Before that, I was considering trying to use DDWRT for VLAN, but then decided its probably a pain and perhaps not great solution.

Indeed this should be in general discussion if anywhere but never mind. Check the power supply. If it's a standard voltage and you have something else that might fit try that. I've seen similar equipment that seemed to be working, the NIC would establish a link, but the CPU wasn't booting. Turned out to be a bad PSU that was difficult to find because off-load it seemed OK. Have you been pressing the reset button very often? The reset buttons are not expected to be used repeatedly so they can fail. If it's broken it may have jammed in the 'reset' position which would obviously prevent it booting. Easy to test that with continuity tester. Steve

Damn. Ah well, thanks for checking.  :) Still seems odd that they changed the date and code but nothing internally, like we're missing something. Steve

An Atom will firewall/NAT 500-600Mbps so well able to handle your total 84Mbps WANs. However you will not get that if you're using VPNs as you are. The best OpenVPN speed you're likely to see would be ~50Mbps and that would use all the CPU, nothing left to route other traffic. Step up to a low end Sandy Bridge, G620 for example, and you'll have no problem. A system built with a such a CPU can be surprisingly cheap and sometimes not much more costly to run. Steve

Hmm, slightly odd. The default serial console speed for pfSense is 9600. In 2.0.x you can only change that by adding lines to loader.conf, 2.1 has a webgui option. It's possible that Netgate's image was customized for them to use 115200. As I said in Voultar's thread the Watchguard X-core is a special case. Steve

The TG-3269 & TG-3468 Works "ok" on pfSense 2.0.x    ;) http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,47119.msg247513.html http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,53922.msg289051.html http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,35881.msg185404.html [image: status_rrd_graph_img_005.png_thumb] [image: status_rrd_graph_img_005.png]

thanks. yep changing the assignment to the onboard card and wan holds up. so figure I need a new lan card..

Readyboost is a windows term, Yes it claims that it meets a certian speed requirement, but this day and age, just get a good branded device and call it good USB 2.0 or USB 3.0, just make sure it's not cheap big-box store brand, and you'll be fine (FYI, i've converted almost all of my USB2 thumbdrives to USB3.0 - they are faster even on usb2 ports)

Do you still have this for sale?

I had a similar problem, my CF card was not being recognised by either my camera or computer, so I was unable to run any recovery software on the card, so obviously it was a hardware issue. After much searching I discovered http://recoverfab.com, and sent my card to them, and they managed to retrieve all 900 photos I had lost - excellent service and highly recommended. James

The bandwidth limit of the PCI bus will likely not be an issue here because the D2500 CPU cannot approach it anyway. Steve

You can't really directly compare soho routers with x86 hardware like that. Most of them are based on SoCs that have been designed especially to be good at routing. Look at some of the top end models that are pushing close to Gigabit speeds from a 700Mhz CPU. No way you could do that with standard x86 hardware. I'd be surprised if the 1GHz Via couldn't do well in excess of 100Mbps. The Alix board gets 85Mbps from a 500MHz CPU. There's a fairly detailed thread about those thin clients that has real numbers. Steve

@kejianshi: Ummmmm.  I might opt for wifi, not know the compatibility of a USB dongle.  Is it for sure supported for you in pfsense?  (I don't know) sorry should of said its my phone that's id be tether sony xperia SP TBF i thought it might of had problems with not been compatible, but i could bridge it via wifi no problem i have a Realtek RTL8187 usb wifi so id presume its possible in pfsence to set this to card to connect to my phones wifi hotspot and share it ? if not i could go for one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WA730RE-150Mbps-Wireless-Extender/dp/B003UZFSDG/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1376615156&sr=8-6&keywords=wireless+extender and as suggested get a dual NIC card Ash

@CaptainWTF: Anyone know what the status is for pfsense support on these e-350 APU's? Short answer - load up the LiveCD and try it. You stated that you "had this to play with" - so play with it. Long answer that's still short - there's a compatibility list (it's a Free BSD compatibility list) - check it. The short answer is more direct and takes less time. Things not on the list may work; so back to the short answer.

@kejianshi: Are 4 ports being tested simultaneously or just 1? My test was 2 ports.