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    • J
      jslegers
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I'm making a test virtuallab with Virtualbox. I have red an article about building a virtuallab with the use of pfsense as a router.
      I have installed pfsense on virtualbox with 2 network adapters. WAN is bridged on my host nic with IP 192.168.1.80/24 LAN is an internal network 172.16.10.254/24. The installation of pfSense went without problems. When I install a Windows 2012 Server and set pfsense as gateway it works correct. But I have a strange problem. I have an 120 Mbit Cable (Ziggo Netherlands) connection. I have done some tests on my test machine but the speed is not running on full speed. I also get disconnects. When I try to download a 1Gb test file from the internet it stops after a while. The speed drops and then the download stops. The Windows Updates also take a very long time.

      Interfaces are set to 1000Mbit Full Duplex.

      I don't understand what the problem is.
      My modem is set to router.

      Is this a known issue or am I missing something?

      pfsense is running on Virtual Box 4.3.26 and has 256Mb ram and 2Gb disk.

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      • J
        jslegers
        last edited by

        I have done some testing and found out that it happens on HTTP downloads.
        When I download a file from a FTP server the connection stays normal.

        When I do a speedtest.net the test can't run full and stops with an error.
        This looks like the problem I'm having.

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        • KOMK
          KOM
          last edited by

          The Windows Updates also take a very long time.

          Well, this is pretty much the normal case for everyone  ;D

          Are you running any extra packages like Snort or Squid etc?

          Anything in your System logs, including the Gateway log?

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          • J
            jslegers
            last edited by

            Hello. I have no extra packages installed. Just a normal install to let it work like a router.
            The log files I have to check.

            I have also installed smoothwall as test and it doesn't have much troubles with speed test.net

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