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    100Mbit Hardware Config Anyone?

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      Dakhor
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      Anyone done some testing of throughput? My ISP pumped up my connection to 100Mbit and I had to toss my old Linksys router out the window.

      I was thinking on buying some "old" comp at arround 1Ghz and making it into a firewall. Would that be enough to get ~100Mbit ftp speeds?

      /DaK/

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        hoba
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        My Via C3 Nehemia 1 GHz can go that speed so depending on concurrent states you should be good with that kind of processorspeed.

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          Dakhor
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          Is there anything in particullar I should think about when browsing for an old computer to buy. I checked out the Hardware compability page but frankly thats a whole lot of mumbo jumbo for me.

          I read somewhere that rtl NIC:s dont work well - is that realtek?

          /DaK/

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            hoba
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            Realtek nics are cheap but known to not have best performance. Basically you should look that you get good nics (like intel) in combination with a fast pci bus on the boards.

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              Dakhor
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              Thanx for the input – i just want to say I love these kinds of forums much more then the mailinglists.

              /DaK/

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                Dakhor
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                Alright installed pfSense on a P2 266Mhz 196Mb RAM ( HD installation ) - my connection is 100/10 Mbit but i get ~80/12 using some bandwidth test to fast servers close to me.

                With pfSense on my old PC im getting ~70/12 to the server with the bandwidth test -

                When uploading with a torrent client at ~10Mbit I get ~45Mbit download speeds ( DC++ and torrents ). Closing down the torrent software boosts the download speed to ~60Mbit.

                All in all im happy with this… Ill keep an eye out on a faster computer to run the firewall onl - but i dont really need more speed. Better then my old Linsys router @ 25Mbit anyway.

                And i dont know much about how to REALLY test throughput etc.

                Anyway what now? Whats next?  -- any other cool funktions I can mess with? - Im kinda tired of port forwarding hehehe...

                /DaK/

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                  hoba
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                  Work your way from top to down of the features list at pfsense.com  ;D

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                    Dakhor
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                    I just found the aditionall packages option – trying this port knocking crap now hehe...

                    /DaK/

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                      trendchiller
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                      1 have 1GHz P3 and 512 Mb RAM with Intel Server DualPort Server Cards and have 100MBit wirespeed performance

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