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    • A
      aGeekhere
      last edited by

      Finally found a fix for this

      changed
      Firewall: Rules LAN FROM

      IPv4 *	LAN NET	*	*	*	*	none	 	Default allow LAN to any rule 	
IPv6 *	LAN NET	*	*	*	*	none	 	Default allow LAN IPv6 to any rule

      TO

      IPv4 *	*	*	*	*	*	none	 	Default allow LAN to any rule 	
IPv6 *	*	*	*	*	*	none	 	Default allow LAN IPv6 to any rule

      Never Fear, A Geek is Here!

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      • KOMK
        KOM
        last edited by

        While I'm glad you got it working, I'm not quite sure how that rule change would affect anything.  Assuming you're already on LAN, LAN net and * are effectively the same thing.

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          aGeekhere
          last edited by

          I do not know ever (might be something to do with the way the segments connect), however it works and I have been trying to find away to fix this for a while.

          Hope this helps others

          Never Fear, A Geek is Here!

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            aGeekhere
            last edited by

            arr, made an update in my wpad which took out the proxy, that's why it worked :(

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            • KOMK
              KOM
              last edited by

              I didn't think that change would make any difference.  Btw, best practice usually calls for blocking 80/443 when using a proxy so that users can't get around it by themselves.

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                jasch
                last edited by

                I am having the same Problem.
                I am using Downthemall because i have 3 Wan, to geht fullspeeddownloads.
                Without Proxy its working, with proxy he is using all line and than after a few second only one.

                This was working for me with older Pfsense squid version.I use this setup for quite some Time now.
                At the moment i have not really the Timeto make testinstalls with older versions.

                MFG Alex

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                  jasch
                  last edited by

                  Ok i have found my old HDD(changed them for an ssd) Put them in and voila all working.
                  Running pfsense 2.15  and squid3-dev 3.3.10 pkg 2.2.8.

                  Mfg Alex

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                    jasch
                    last edited by

                    Hm i updated the old setup to all recent 2.2.4 and latest squid and its still working.
                    The other setup was a new from scratch i made with 2.2 changes.

                    Maybe on weekend i have time to make an brandnew install and check.

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                      aGeekhere
                      last edited by

                      So did you get it working? I found that downthemall works (uses all segments) on some sites but not others when going through the proxy.

                      To test try downloading the latest ubuntu (which I have found to have the segments issue when going through squid).

                      Never Fear, A Geek is Here!

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                        aGeekhere
                        last edited by

                        Hi all I am bumping up this topic again because I made a few observations.

                        I have determined that Squid has an issue with multi segment downloading/Multithread downloading.
                        Testing with downthemall for firefox and metalink for chrome downloading a test file http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/test/
                        When port 80 and 443 are blocked and all traffic is going through squid the download is limited to 1 segment resulting in slow download speed.

                        However when not going through squid then the segments are not limited to 1, resulting in being able to download 10x faster (because now I can connect to 10 segements).

                        I have also found that some software update programs which use multi segment downloading/Multithread downloading become slow at downloading.

                        Now this is the strange part, squid does support multi segment downloading/Multithread downloading, when downloading from youtube you are able to connect to multi segments and get full bandwidth.

                        So I guest the big question is is this a pfsense squid package issue or a squid-cache.org issue? Where should I post this bug/issue?

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