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    Browsers are very slow

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    • GruensFroeschliG
      GruensFroeschli
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      Can you look at the RRD graphs and see if the CPU load is high?

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        Zhooter
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        @GruensFroeschli:

        Can you look at the RRD graphs and see if the CPU load is high?

        The CPU load is at zero.. The higest load is 30. :)

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          mhab12
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          Are you running any packages?  The squid package in certain pfSense releases was known to cause major slowdowns.

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            Zhooter
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            I dont even know what a squid package is :S

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              mhab12
              last edited by

              Squid is a caching proxy - pfSense has a GUI installable package of this software available.  You can read all about it at www.squid-cache.org or in the packages forum.

              When only http browsing is slow and other protocols/traffic is up to speed a proxy is likely the problem as it usually only interacts with http traffic.  Seeing as you don't know what it is, I doubt this is your case.

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                Zhooter
                last edited by

                yeah maybe.. i will try to read about it and see how it looks :)

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                  Zhooter
                  last edited by

                  Would you say that Squid is a good package to install?

                  It looks to speed up the load of sites very much ? or just the speed of all :S

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                  • Cry HavokC
                    Cry Havok
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                    It can (but may not) increase the speed with which commonly viewed sites load.

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                      Zhooter
                      last edited by

                      Ahh okay.. I will try to read about squid and see if it will work in my case..

                      Thnx

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                        Grim0x
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                        @GruensFroeschli:

                        Not on pfSense itself.

                        How to set the DNS entries on your computer:
                        https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start/computer/

                        hello - I had the very same prob our friend here is describing, and this tip helped!

                        Thanks much!
                        What I find strange however, is WHY this started to happen all of a sudden.

                        In any case - I hope it doesnt stop working soon like it did for this guys :p

                        Thanks.

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