iced98lx

Actually I have 4 nics in that machine , the on board and three intel pci , I yanked the wireless card i slipped in there yesterday in lue of your knowledge, I set the onboard up as wan , one is reserved for dual wan once i move and another for the wireless.

Might tackle this later today , have a few tasks to get done before hand.

It's gonna get wild , I have to reconfigure the two cisco 2900's now , I know some ios but I'm not super fluent , and from what I understand the 2900's don't support voice vlans , I'll have to find a way to setup the sip phone on freeswitch. But thats a bit into the distance.

thanks, rick

I ran the freeswitch package on PFsense for 2 years. Just recently put together a dedicated freeswitch server for the house & various other locations. I run 10 extensions out of it 3 of which are in the house.

Good luck and Godspeed I hate the 2900's.

Thanks for the input. In the case of creating the vlan , would it be best to put the wireless on opt1 ~ vlan or use the lan and create a vlan on this. I would think creating a vlan on opt1 would be better , any thoughts ? As opt1 interface is not in use right now.

If you happen to have a triple nic setup and opt1 is available that's the traditional spot to put it, and where I would put it if you don't have a need for another DMZ type zone, just remember to setup your firewall rules after you plug it in and wonder why you can't get any traffic from opt1 to any other interface

Chris

I made the move from smoothwall to m0n0wall a couple weeks ago. It's great, but I needed more along the lines of dual wan and deeper configurability between vlans and vpn across multiple local and remote domains and utilizing a dial up network for INN server I'm experimenting on.

So I went to pfsense , I should have done this a while ago , who else is running pfsense that can speak on it's behalf of an internal wireless interface Vs. external wireless router turned into a subnet of it's own. The idea is to find out which is more stable , the internal interface or the external device implemented on a vlan.

Create a vlan and use a device, PfSense is tits but I'm not a fan of it's wireless support been running it for 3 years now and have several boxes at businesses I support. on a dual core atom box it handles 100/100 fiber with no issue including open vpn connections tons of port forwarding/handling manual outbound nat etc.

Great stuff.

with about a second round trip time for packets, VOIP is going to be hit or miss, the only thing they can do is time delay things properly so you don't chop up.. you'll never be able to get rid of the lag.. Good luck, i'm guessing it's not going to be a happy ending trying to use VOIP over sat if you're used to regular landline connectivity.

I don't have a 30/5 I have uncapped/1 the 1.5 up is $100 more per month, so I told them where to take it and keep it.. lol. The download is whatever the network will bear and my poor old surfboard modem will pass.  I Pay $99/month for  the uncapped /1 plan with 8 static IP's.. it's not bad, but there's 20/2 fiber 20 miles away for $65, but they charge $20/month for static IP's.. yuck!

30/1 is almost pulling it's weight.. I nicked a 30mpbs test on the 100mb test so I'll be happy with it for now..

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::

Download Connection is:: 26306 Kbps about 26.31 Mbps (tested with 25600 kB)

Download Speed is:: 3211 kB/s

Upload Connection is:: 977 Kbps about 1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 119 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/05/17 - 7:03pm

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-FH8GJ9625

U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-ZPI3J05H1

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

Been a while since I was seeing throughput from tmn to me this good...

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 30855 Kbps about 30.9 Mbps (tested with 102391 kB)

Download Speed is:: 3766 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/05/17 - 6:55pm

Bottom Line:: 538X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.27 sec

Tested from a 102391 kB file and took 27.185 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 494.05 % faster than the average for host (midco.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-A32B59L4P

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

not my fastest, but i love the 100mb test..

:::.. Download Stats ..:::

Download Connection is:: 22456 Kbps about 22.5 Mbps (tested with 102391 kB)

Download Speed is:: 2741 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/03/20 - 3:21pm

Bottom Line:: 392X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.37 sec

Tested from a 102391 kB file and took 37.353 seconds to complete

Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 336.55 % faster than the average for host (midco.net)

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-VSX06BFNQ

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::

Download Connection is:: 20532 Kbps about 20.53 Mbps (tested with 25600 kB)

Download Speed is:: 2506 kB/s

Upload Connection is:: 926 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 113 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/02/27 - 11:49pm

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-FTXG1EL93

U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-Z3VPF6EQY

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) [!]

faster then 50/20

Sorry man, but you'll be at 50/20 or less  no matter what software you put on your computer. Run a speedtest and see where you're at and post it up here.

I've got a Onkyo TXNR905 HU with polk Monitor 70 L&R and a PSW10 sub.  removed the rest of the speakers after i found that I didn't use the surround much besides the occasional little counter strike jaunt..

Intel business class boards are awesome, unless of course your trying to teak the S#!t outta the thing. Reliable, three year no questions asked warranty, among other things, I have a DG33BU w/ a 4600 in it, 2 gigs ddr2 , no bullS#!t on there like " you need this and that to keep your system running good" , and that thing flies like the wind, snap snap !  I know your probably into more then that , but I also have other systems, and the Intel boards blow the S#!t outta most of them. For day to day things anyway. How fast you like to see the local files load is one thing, milliseconds, gaming , thats another.

nope the current core 2 quad setup i've got is on an intel board, love them. Dont' play games- just a lot of programming. The drawback to me was only 3 DIMM Slots...

NIce !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see what it does 

me too, was going to go for the 2.9ghz i7 but good lord the price is out of this world for such a small change... Curious to see how the tripple channel ram does as well.. Think I'll just keep my current card (8600GT 512mb) due to the lack of a workout it gets now as well as my drive setup. Looking at the intel board but i kind of wanted to do 12gb ram (2x6).. Might have to go with the asus board, but dang.. $280 bucks for a board is.. a lot.

What new setup ?

I will say it includes this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

Still here, still enjoying Midco's service... I've got uncapped down 1meg up right now but have the packet shaper adjusted to only allow 12mbs in...

Please be aware that "uncapping " is not necessarily legal, this site does not condone this action, nor discussions pertaining to the process. Thanks

I came in to reply to the original topic, about being addicted to TMN, which I'm not, I just go in spurts of reading and replying when I have time between projects and builds...  but I see we've moved on to cooler stuff like bug bombs  I bug bomb the lake house every spring for spiders and Asian Beatles, those little *#%*#ers are good for soybeans but man do they stink!!

I'll go with Swimmer here and say it's time to take your firewall solution a little more seriously and look at turning your routers in just strait AP's. Let PfSense handle the rest (or whichever you pick ) I'm a huge pf fan, and use it personally and professionally. I'm going to suggest not just captive portal, but blocking any and all traffic other than port 80, 25, and 110. That should give them web browsing, pop3 email, and outgoing SMTP for e-mail sending. That won't stop someone from using a p2p but it will limit the effectiveness of it. Then it's time to look at how many AP's you have vs rooms/possible connections etc.

This is a decent sized project, and will require some planning to get it to work effectively and happily for all your hotel guests. We can perhaps help a bit, but we'd need more information:

# of rooms (possible connections)

Bandwidth you have (and can you upgrade if you need to?)

services you want to allow (E-mail, web browsing, group printing, etc)

there are lots of very bright people on here that know a lot more than just internet tweaking, and we're all here to help the best we can

You're always going to see a slight speed drop across wifi, even with draft N at 300mbps I loose about 1mb of download off my normal wired score of 12, not sure the throughput issue but over sustained downloads the speed seems good (If I do a 100mb file It gets righto 11.6 or so..). It does sound like you're in need of some better equipment, check and see what your card supports and get a new router! If you've got the extra bank I'd just jump for a multiband (A/B/G/dN) now and have future upgrades covered. (most people laugh off A but it can be really useful in a crowded apartment building etc etc).

Gotta love the Linux Network stack, getting exactly what my packetshaper is set to allow!

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::

Download Connection is:: 12222 Kbps about 12.22 Mbps (tested with 12288 kB)

Download Speed is:: 1492 kB/s

Upload Connection is:: 909 Kbps about 0.9 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)

Upload Speed is:: 111 kB/s

Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Main)

Test Time:: 2009/02/08 - 7:01pm

D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-EK2FO64R8

U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-A8BHYMVOG

User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121623 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5 [!]

So who's running the graphics card client ?

I had been but it doesn't give back recs very happily.. the CPU client scales back so nicely with its' super low-priority mode.. I had been running 1 thread on each CPU and 1 on the GPU but I removed them a while back.. once the new setup is done I'll run F@H on it just to see how it can do..

Core 2 quad 2.66 ghz

At the moment I have TalkTalk up to 8mb IP and it is used by 4 computers... i get speeds of up to like 1mb at best :s

Im thinking to change my IP provider to cable virgin fibre optic 10mb. Will this increase my speeds?

tnx

Theoretically, YES it will. If you're seeing sub-part performance from your current connection though, you could have a bottleneck in your networking, such as your router, wireless etc. What's your setup? We can try to help determine if you're getting the most out of your current connection or if they've got some issue with the lines/service..

EDIT: Should be more clear, can  you run us through your network setup? IE DSL  modem-> Netgear VRT2991 Router -> wired connection to computer 1/2/4 wirless to 2/5/9 etc etc?

Don't do what was just suggested, you'll be double NAT'd.  Just go down to best buy and purchase a switch and plug one port into the switch from the verzion router, then plug whatever you'd like into the switch.

if you are determined to use the router, turn off DHCP, turn off ALL routing, and plug the verizion router into a LAN port, then plug everything into the LAN ports, NOT the WAN.

chris

This is an old dial-up check but I think it would help diagnose your problem if you can do it.

You need to connect direct to your NID(outside telephone service box).Do this with just 1 computer disconnect the line that goes to the rest of you house so the one modem is all that's connectedto the NID.

You need to locate the modem & computer as close as possible to the NID.Since this is only temporary to test locate the window closest to the NID & run the shortest good quality telephone cable you can from the modem to the NID.

Same for the ethernet cable from modem to computer.

If this improves your speed majorly then the problem is not from the NID out but either house telephone wiring.A device such as a telephone causing a problem.The router or computer settings.

If you get no improvement from this then the problem is somewhere out from the NID or your computer settings.

This is a good suggestion, also wire your computer to the router or directly to the modem and test, start eliminating things so you know it's the ISP's problem.

Im running a 12GHz System  Well if you add all four cores

Oh Geeze.. I better just say that my Core7 box is going to win this fight..  :2funny: