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    Browsers are very slow

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    • Z
      Zhooter
      last edited by

      Hey

      I have a 50/50 mbit and have a pfsense dhcp server running, when im downloading the internet speed runs a full speed but when im surfing around the web the browsers are running very slow.

      Any body who have an idea how to solve that ?

      //Zhooter

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      • GruensFroeschliG
        GruensFroeschli
        last edited by

        This sounds like a DNS issue.
        Can you set on a testclient static DNS entries of 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 and try again?

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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        • Z
          Zhooter
          last edited by

          Im pretty new at pfsense but how do i do that ?  ???

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          • GruensFroeschliG
            GruensFroeschli
            last edited by

            Not on pfSense itself.

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

            We do what we must, because we can.

            Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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            • Z
              Zhooter
              last edited by

              Ahhh 2 sec i will just try that.. :)

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              • Z
                Zhooter
                last edited by

                I have tried that now :)

                But i dont think it works better :S

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                • Z
                  Zhooter
                  last edited by

                  Hmm it actually works better :S

                  it is much faster now.. :S

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                  • Z
                    Zhooter
                    last edited by

                    Hmm and now its back to the same speed as before :S

                    Im lost right now.. It worked for about 5 minutes :S

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                      Perry
                      last edited by

                      It might be a MTU or Gateway problem
                      http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,9301.0.html

                      /Perry
                      doc.pfsense.org

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                      • Z
                        Zhooter
                        last edited by

                        Thnx i will try to look at that and then report back.

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                        • Z
                          Zhooter
                          last edited by

                          That is not the problem i think.. :S

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                          • Z
                            Zhooter
                            last edited by

                            That did not work :S

                            I really dont know why? :S

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                            • GruensFroeschliG
                              GruensFroeschli
                              last edited by

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

                              We do what we must, because we can.

                              Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                                Zhooter
                                last edited by

                                @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
                                  last edited by

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

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                                    Zhooter
                                    last edited by

                                    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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                                        • Z
                                          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
                                            last edited by

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

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