BF3 ping times with PFSense

kogashuko

I am really considering building a PFsense router. I keep going through routers like once a year since my ISP has boosted speeds. My best one was a netgear that gave me decent ping times but eventually died. Now I am running a dlink with wwdrt and I am getting 40ms pings instead of 25-29 on the same servers. To make matters worse it has corrupted and I can no longer log in. I also get weird lag spikes in BF3 and random site loading delays. I was about to buy a TPlink hardware router and I saw everything PFsense does.

So my question is, did you all see any differences in you ping and jitter when going from a traditional router to PFsense.

My pc is a I7 with 8gb of ram and a geforce 680
My internet connection is cable at 25/5 with grade A line quality.
I am also wired between the router and PC at a gigabit - 15 foot drop.

Metu69salemi

My setup for BF3:

PC: i7 with 16GB ram + 128GB SSD + 2*560 SLI-connection
Connection: 8/3 Grade A
Connection between pc and pfsense is only 10/100 due to switch

When playing on connection is used by: My playmachine(BF3, skype), ps3 with netflix(kids), laptop(wife using facebook), 2 neighbor machines

and ping is something between 3-60 ms, caused of server distance.

I wouldn't blame pfsense, but look your hardware beneath

Roots0

A decent NIC in your PC helps. I use a Intel pro 1000 PT card, you can often pick them up cheap on ebay.

I also recon a pfsense box wont hurt you ping times or your connection stability.

fragged

Your local network has pretty much 0 affect on your ping times assuming you are not using wireless at any point, which might cause higher latencies. I get sub 1 ms latency up to 4 hops from my PC (pfsense,ISP gateway, .., ..).

francisuk22

Well, This is nothing to do with BF3 but i play MW3 with dedicated servers (if this helps) sorry BF3 fans!

Depends where the server is located, Im guessing your from USA? So as long as your on a USA server then you will have low pings times
As stated a good nic card (mines an 3com intel chipset)

I play on the Europe servers and get 13ms - 17ms from UK to France with OVH systems
On one of the weekends i looked into my pfsense and my connection is used my PC MW3/(Stream) Zello, xbox 360 (my little one), desktop pc (girlfriends using facebook/twitter/zello/skype video calling), android tablet used by next door (2mbits down and 2mbits up) used with traffic sharp.

pfsense system
Dell GX520 SFF
Intel P4 3.00GHz
RAM: DDR2 512MB
Broadcom 1gbps onbroad
3com 100Mbits card
Cisco sr224 100mbits switch
CPU: 12%/ 29% RAM

Internet: 100 Mbits down and 10 Mbits upload cable ISP
As you can see, The pfsense box dont need to be that powerful for a good ping however wireless might cause higher pings as said before ^^

however

Ping 19-23 ms from hes to 1&1 servers in german

I have built my friend a pfsense box
intel p3 833mhz from about year 2000/2001 :'(
512MB RAM (Max)
80GB IDE HDD
Realtek 100mbits onbroad
3com 100mbits card
blue netgear switch 100mbits

Internet: 30mbps down and 1mbits upload cable ISP

CPU:39% / RAM sit about 52%
Hes wife uses her laptop for facebook and emails and streams netflix and bbc iplayer and he plays MW3 all at the sametime. Until they have there baby

scientific

Hi Guys I am also having a Ping problem with my new Pfsense Build. The main issue is when do a speedtest from speedtest.net my ping is always 200+ms..
I setup my box for Online gaming and Torrents. I checked to see if I am getting any dropped packets and getting 0% dropped. I can ping the Lan to Pfsense and Wan to Google and speedtest.net good with no problems. I have installed arpwatch banwithh HAVP pftBlocker Snort and Squid.

I used http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0JFfpG4BWI to setup my box..

Just wan't to know everything is good before I mess with Traffic shaping and all the other good stuff.. thanks

A Former User

@fragged:

Your local network has pretty much 0 affect on your ping times assuming you are not using wireless at any point, which might cause higher latencies. I get sub 1 ms latency up to 4 hops from my PC (pfsense,ISP gateway, .., ..).

this is not true… a crappy switch or crappy nic can affect your latency.

after switching to my pfsense box (Intel D2500CC with Dual-Intel-Nic's) I noticed not just a lower Ping to my Gateway, but also a lower latency range (monitored with smokeping).

mwastart

@scientific:

Hi Guys I am also having a Ping problem with my new Pfsense Build. The main issue is when do a speedtest from speedtest.net my ping is always 200+ms..

…

I have installed arpwatch banwithh HAVP pftBlocker Snort and Squid.

Your sig shows your box as having 2GB of memory. HAVP + Snort + squid can very easily eat up more than 4GB of memory. Are you using swap? That could cause a huge slow down…

Roots0

@fragged:

Your local network has pretty much 0 affect on your ping times assuming you are not using wireless at any point, which might cause higher latencies. I get sub 1 ms latency up to 4 hops from my PC (pfsense,ISP gateway, .., ..).

I don't agree with this at all. Quality of drivers and makeup of all network hardware from every hop affect your latency.

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kathampy

@Roots0:

@fragged:

Your local network has pretty much 0 affect on your ping times assuming you are not using wireless at any point, which might cause higher latencies. I get sub 1 ms latency up to 4 hops from my PC (pfsense,ISP gateway, .., ..).

I don't agree with this at all. Quality of drivers and makeup of all network hardware from every hop affect your latency.

Only for high bandwidth applications. Games use a few kbps. The latency will not increase beyond 1ms. The worst increase will be from the PC's NIC & drivers. Even then, only high bandwidth will aggravate the latency increase.