Firewall upgraded to follow the demand
We decided to try upgrading our net to 1000/1000Mbit, it all went fine until we did a speed test – It showed a slow 200-300Mbit in download speed and 75-150Mbit in upload all depending on what servers we tested towards.
Our ISP did some changes and it became a bit better 375/200Mbit steady, but that was still not satisfying when paying for 1000/1000Mbit. So I started digging a bit around and found out the firewall’s bus could be a bottle neck. So we decided to change it.
Before it looks like this:
| CPU | Intel Atom D510 1.66GHz, Dual core (With HT) |
| Motherboard | ASUS AT5NM10-I |
| Memory | 2x Kingston 2GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 DIMM |
| Hard Drive | Western Digital Scorpio Blue 120GB 2.5″ SATA (8 MB Cache, 5400RPM) |
| NIC 1 | Realtek® RTL8112L PCIe – 1000Mbit |
| NIC 2/3 | Intel 8492MT PRO/1000 MT Dual Port Server Network Adapter |
| Case | Chieftec BT-02B Mini-ITX |
| Wireless | TP-LINK TL-WA901ND v2.2 |
| Operating System | pfsense 2.0.1-RELEASE |
| Connection/ISP | 1000/1000 Mbit Fiber (T3.se) |
And now it looks like this:
| CPU | Intel® Core i3-2120T |
| Motherboard | ASUS P8H77-I |
| Memory | Kingston DDR3 HyperX blu 1600MHz 8GB |
| Hard Drive | Western Digital Scorpio Blue 120GB 2.5″ SATA (8 MB Cache, 5400RPM) |
| NIC 1 | Realtek® 8111F Gigabit LAN |
| NIC 2/3 | Fujitsu D2735-2 Dual gigabit – based on the Intel® chip 82576NS |
| Case | Chieftec BT-02B Mini-ITX |
| Wireless | TP-LINK TL-WA901ND v2.2 |
| Operating System | pfsense 2.1-BETA0 |
| Connection/ISP | 1000/1000 Mbit Fiber (T3.se) |
This is an image that shows the current upload speed: Upload speed
This is a download test done from a unix server behind the firewall:
root@freja:~# wget -O /dev/null http://tptest.bahnhof.se/1000M.zip
–2012-06-16 11:31:21– http://tptest.bahnhof.se/1000M.zip
Resolving tptest.bahnhof.se… 213.80.98.3
Connecting to tptest.bahnhof.se|213.80.98.3|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1048576001 (1000M) [application/zip]
Saving to: “/dev/null”
100%[=========================================================================================================================>] 1.048.576.001 82,4M/s in 12s
2012-06-16 11:31:33 (83,2 MB/s) – “/dev/null” saved [1048576001/1048576001]