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Originally Posted by AdminDDC
all my specs are in post #3 above... the actual model of the system is an HP x4000 Workstation.
Since my last post, however, I think I've narrowed down the probable cause of the slowness. I disabled QoS on the external interface and the speeds are all where they're supposed to be... 8Mbit down / 768kbit up, or just under. If I enable QoS with ANY settings, the total speed drops back down. On the WRT with custom firmware, you can disable the inbound QoS. I don't see any way to do this within Astaro. Any ideas on this?
EDIT: I also noticed something else interesting with QoS disabled... I'm currently downloading two very large torrents (Ubuntu and Kubuntu DVD's) with several hundred peers connected. It's downloading at a solid 8Mbit rate without problems. But I noticed even after 3.5GBytes of data, there's been NO errors or dropped packets on the external interface. I was seeing around 400-500 dropped packets when QoS was enabled. Is QoS broken? I'd be curious to know which QoS method Astaro uses. It feels like the old WonderShaper.
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Thanks for the info about QOS... this too was my problem. I removed the QOS setting and was able to get the SAME performance through the firewall as I was getting on a WinXP PC. Because I'm a "Myth Busters Fan"... I decided to step it up a notch, now that my issue was fixed I had to see if the celeron CPU was an issue. Using an external server (on the same network as my External NIC), I ran some speed tests. I'm sure these tests were limited because my external network is a 100mb hub, not a switch. However, I was able to sustain 75 megabit of throughput on file sizes over 100mb through the firewall. This is full PROOF that a Celeron 2.0ghz is more than enough horsepower to be a firewall.
However, I ran MORE tests because I'm a tech and I just have to. So, I hooked up a new hard drive to my 3.0ghz P4 DUEL CORE box.. and put an extra Realtec 8139 in it (there was an onboard realtec gig already), installed 6.3.0 from cd, upgraded it to 6.3.1. I then ran the same tests... QOS on resulted in 2.4mb throughput.. QOS off, FULL throughput.. .and this firewall was able to sqeeze 80megabit on my local speed test using the same external network (hub) (with QOS off).
Therefore, perhaps someone at ASTARO needs to look into a problem with QOS as this has caused SERIOUS bandwidth limiting issues.