Settings for the most responsive browsing?
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@octopuss said in Settings for the most responsive browsing?:
From what the ISP's technician told me, this frequency cannot be "interefered".
Nice company minded statement.
Every frequency can be interfered, its a question of equipment and efforts, but not of physics.The higher the frequency, the lower is the risk of being interfered by typical other WLAN or low shielded devices, but there is no radio frequency that can not be interfered.
Therefore this statement is rather optimistic.
Regards
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@fsc830 Maybe he said "mostly cannot be interfered" or something, I don't know.
What I can say is that I didn't have to call them once since the upgrade, whereas with the previous 5GHz AP they constantly had to tune it because despite being in the outskirts of a town, there are still way too many signals around, and the connection would randomly start dropping or speed would drop to 20% of what it was supposed to be. -
Looks pretty good to me.Oh and the AP should be Mikrotik nRAY.
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@octopuss What OS is on your computer? 2 seconds sounds like a DNS timeout. *nix usually queries its DNS servers in order, while Windows uses the "last known good" server first.
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@steveits Windows 10.
It's not flat 2 seconds for every site. Some are this slow, some are not. Sites within the country tend to be noticeably faster to start loading.
Most sites seem to load faster the 2nd time too.pfSense runs under ESXi on all-in-one server.
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@octopuss In DNS Resolver settings, is "DNS Query Forwarding" enabled?
If it is, disable the DNSSEC option.
In v23.01, some have posted of random failures if "DNS Query Forwarding" is enabled and "Use SSL/TLS for outgoing DNS Queries to Forwarding Servers" is checked.
Did you say what pfSense version you have?
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@steveits Yes, I have forwarding enabled in the Resolver. It's the only way to use specific DNS servers I think? I guess using my ISP's DNSes makes the most sense as they are like 1km away from me.
I used to have DNSSEC enabled, but have disabled it when I was digging in the settings before posting here. I don't think there is any change in any way.
I have also disabled the use SSL/TLS setting because the DNS servers I use aren't compatible with it.I have also updated from 2.5.2 to 2.7.0 the same day.
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FWIW, in my home environment, I've found browsing speed no different on the 400 Mb I once had or the 70 Mb I have now.
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@provels I don't believe it has anything to do speed either. Not unless you have like 10Mbit download or something at least.
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I have also updated from 2.5.2 to 2.7.0 the same day.
I meant to write 2.6.0.
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@octopuss I think you need to verify it's a DNS issue. From your computer try nslookup to see how long domains take to resolve. Use a hostname you haven't connected to/looked up already, so it isn't cached. Syntax:
nslookup abc.com IP_of_pfSense
That will show you how long it takes pfSense to resolve it. Then maybe try again using a public DNS server like 8.8.8.8 or 9.9.9.9.
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@steveits Is the command supposed to give me some kind of measurement in miliseconds or am I supposed to simply observe whether it feels slow?
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@octopuss No, but normal resolution is maybe 50 ms give or take a few dozen ms so a delay of 1000-2000 ms is usually noticeable.
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@steveits Ok, I tried a few websites I haven't visited for months at least, and even for those I believe are in the U.S., the response was pretty much instant.
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@octopuss Then if it was me, I would look at browser plugins, try a private browser window, different browser, different PC, etc.
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@steveits No browser plugins that would affect networking (well, Ublock Origin, but that should in fact improve responsiveness), and Firefox seems to load pages about the same...
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@octopuss I will have to look into this pale moon, if they have stated they are not ever going to support doh?
As mentioned use another browser - pale moon is based off mozilla, does it have the dev tools - so you can see exactly what is taking exactly how long to load..
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@johnpoz Some info is on its website: https://www.palemoon.org/info.shtml
I only know there is nothing called doh in the settings. Web development and programming is total klingon to me.
And I did look at the console, but I don't really know what to look for. I am a completely basic user when it comes to these things.
Pages seem to load exactly the same in Edge too.
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@octopuss here for example - you can see exactly what took how long to load, how much was transferred and how long took the whole page to load
edit: does seem that pale moon doesn't have any doh feature - good to know..
If you highlight a specific something, you should see under timings how long dns took, etc. Or what in the process of loading that what took so long, etc. But the main page will give you how long the page took, how much was downloaded, etc.
