BF3 ping times with PFSense
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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.
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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 switchWhen 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
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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.
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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, .., ..).
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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% RAMInternet: 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 100mbitsInternet: 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
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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
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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).
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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..
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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…
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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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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.