PentiumIII INTEL 400 ULV Mainboard: AR-B1666
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hi there
I could get a mini server barebone for not to expensive. but its only a PentiumIII 400 mhz cpu. my question is what sort of transfer speed would i get from it? also what transfer speed it would deliver if i use the ovpn client? does or did anyone use such a cpu?
thanks in advance
steve -
That board appears to be a ULV Celeron not a PentiumIII. Either way it's going to be slow. Do you have any more details?
Steve
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hi
more details? not really. it comes with 128mb ram but can be upgraded to 512mb. at the moment i use a wrap1e203 with monowall but in the future this is going to be to slow so i thought maybe this 400mhz cpu is going to be faster.
best regards
steve -
It's hard to say what sort of performance you'd get from it. The nearest equivalent hardware that is well tested is the Alix box. That has a 500MHz AMD chip and 256MB ram. It can firewall/NAT around 85Mbps. 128MB is absolute minimum for RAM, you would want to add more to do almost anything beyond basic firewalling. I can't find out exactly what CPU that board has. Depending on what generation Celeron it is it could be faster or slower than the Alix. There isn't actually a 400MHz ULV Celeron listed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Celeron_microprocessors#Mobile_Processors
I would assume it's an underclocked 600MHz chip but that could still be a number of different CPU that will likely yield very different results.Depending on what it actually is the throughput will probably be between 50 and 100Mbps. :-\
Steve
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There is a clue in that the AR-B1666 uses the VIA PLE133T northbridge. This is a Pentium3 era chipset. In which case the CPU is likely to be an underclocked version of this:
http://ark.intel.com/products/27338/Mobile-Intel-Celeron-Processor-LV-650-MHz-256K-Cache-100-MHz-FSB
That's old!
Another user was recently using a P2-350 and acheived 50Mbps throughput:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,57146.msg305336.html#msg305336
That box will probably be slightly faster than that. But not much! ;)Steve
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I could get a mini server barebone for not to expensive. but its only a PentiumIII 400 mhz cpu.
It's only worth it if you get it for free. ;D
Check the Igel 4210 LX thin client. A real stable platform for a bargain.
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hi there
funny you should mention the igel robi because i found this thread
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,45430.0.html
and after reading it i bought myself one from ebay. it should arrive next week.
thanks stephenw10 for your support, im sure i will comeback when i try to get it running. :D
steve
