New install, terrible VNC - RDP connections on LAN, slow and unusable. I repeat, on LAN. Hair has been pulled out.
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I am brand new to both Netgate hardware and pfsense. I have and still want to try to love it, and that is not the case right now. I run a network at a small business. About 30 people, but hardly more than 15 devices being used at any one time.
I recently upgraded from a Netgear NightHawk r7000 that acted as a router, switch, and our access point for wifi. Now I have an SG-1100, unmanaged switch, and UniFi APs. Getting up with the times, but I am growing frustrated.
My BIGGEST issue right now is RDP. We use TightVNC, and it worked like a charm on our last setup. No issues at all. You don't know what you miss until its gone. Now, I am having huge latency issues on LAN. I repeat LAN because most of the posts on the subject are having issues with VPNs, but this is 100% LAN. One network, one building, one router, one switch, two devices-- LAN. I also need this to work over VPN, and it is equally as terrible...which actually gives me a lot of hope because I know that this issue MUST reside outside of the VPN and then it likely will fix that issue as well.
The connection will always make just fine, and then it will freeze about 5 seconds later and be terribly unresponsive, and unusable. To accomplish anything, I have to keep opening sessions every time I click on something.
So literally I open VNC session, and do what I need for 5 seconds, then it becomes unusable, close it, reopen, 5 normal seconds, close, reopen, close, repeat repeat repeat.
The firewall logs look fine to me, and I cannot find any resources that can help me with this issue. None of the destination or sources of blocks are related to the machines I am working with.
SFTP is also terrible on my LAN. Connections get made, but files stop transferring, fail, and restart all the time. Connections drop. That is another issue all together, but maybe it could be related? It is a same type of behavior. Files start fine, then get glitchy, stop, reconnect, fine, reconnect, fine, reconnect, fine, reconnect........
Accessing the internet could not be faster. Super quick, snappy, everything works 100% like it is supposed to. I would appreciate if anyone can point me in the right direction! My consumer BestBuy router literally worked better than this, and it also gave me a lot less headaches. I know something is wrong, and just need some direction. Thank you for your time!
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@tgimagine said in New install, terrible VNC - RDP connections on LAN, slow and unusable. I repeat, on LAN. Hair has been pulled out.:
Accessing the internet could not be faster.
It's pretty strange because newbie me thought that LAN would be super simple and WAN would be giving me all the issues, and this is the exact opposite. WAN could not be any better for me, and all of my issues reside within the LAN.
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@tgimagine
I'd say it's more likely there is a loop in your network, or a berserk network card (PC, print server, AP). FW could care less about what's going on in the LAN, until someone wants to leave. -
@provels Thanks for the reply! Any way you could send me in a direction to possibly finding what might be causing this? Thank you!!
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@tgimagine
Make sure no one has plugged the same cable into 2 ports on the switch or under a desk, try unplugging about half your computers/printers and see if the problem remains. If yes, plug the first half back in and unplug the second. APs, too. Process of elimination.Also, on the off chance it is the SG, take it off the net. Maybe bad NIC out of box.