General Questions

Hi,
This is my first post here so I hope someone can help.

I have been using BE internet (Cerberus Networks) 20 mb for a couple of months and I run a 29 player Gaming Center. The Speedtouch 780 couldn't cope with the ammount of sessions Counter Strike was opening and although all other games were fine and with great pings we had to put the Speedtouch into Bridge Mode and add M0n0wall as our router for the LAN.

The problem is that with m0n0wall I'm only getting around 8 - 10 mb down speeds and 2.1 up. If I plug my laptop into the Speedtouch, bypassing monowall I'm getting the full 16 - 20 mb down.

I'm using m0n0wall version 1.231 with a gateway address of 10.0.0.139 with no DHCP server as each of our PC's is in the range of 10.0.0.* with the primary & secondry DNS as supplied to us by Cerberus Networks.

It's all working fine, with great pings and no lag but being a virgo man I WANT MY FULL DOWNLOAD SPEEDS! 

Any advice would be great and if this problem is already solved in the forums I'm sorry in advance for not having the time to search, a simple link to the solution would be great.

Kind regards

Ron Mckenzie
Wireworld Gaming

what hardware are you using?

Thx for the reply,

I'm using a asus a7n8x-vm board with amd xp 2100

nic's are dlink dfe530tx's both for m0n0wall

moved the cards to ensure no irc conflicts, wherever i put them tested same

8 - 10 Mb/s down not 16 - 20 as it should be.

Spent a while on the web last nignt, trawling through here, IPcop & Speedwall forums looking for someone with the same probs, could only find someone with a 100mb line getting 35 -40, he replaced the cards and improved by 10... might it be the nic's not powerful enough maybe?

thinking of trying IPcop to see if results are the same with my hardware.....


here is my boot up log:

Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: usb0: USB revision 1.0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: uhub0: (0x10de) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: ohci1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfe900000-0xfe900fff irq 5 at device 2.1 on pci0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: usb1: SMM does not respond, resetting
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: usb1: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci1
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: usb1: USB revision 1.0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: uhub1: (0x10de) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: pci0: <USB controller> at 2.2 irq 10
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=10de device=006c)> at device 8.0 on pci0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib1
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: vr0: <VIA VT6105 Rhine III 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe4ff mem 0xfe000000-0xfe0000ff irq 4 at device 6.0 on pci2
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: vr0: Ethernet address: 00:11:95:84:5c:48
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: vr1: <VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfe200000-0xfe2000ff irq 7 at device 8.0 on pci2
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: vr1: Ethernet address: 00:05:5d:01:36:b7
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: miibus1: <MII bus> on vr1
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: atapci0: <nVIDIA nForce2 ATA133 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 9.0 on pci0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: pcib2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=10de device=01e8)> at device 30.0 on pci0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib2
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: pci1: <NVidia model 01f0 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: pmtimer0 on isa0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: sio0: type 8250
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: BRIDGE 020214 loaded
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: IP Filter: v3.4.35 initialized. Default = block all, Logging = enabled
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152L> at ata1-slave PIO4
Oct 5 13:06:25 /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c
Oct 5 16:54:45 /kernel: vr1: watchdog timeout

Hi again,

I just switched to IPcop and the download speeds are now fine!

thanks all

Today I installed m0n0wall on a Dell GX150 to replace my WRT54G and i experienced the same problem described above. I have an ADSL2+ connection and i normally get around 1,6MB/sec ~ 1,7MB/sec from different servers. But with using a GX150 PC i can't get higher speeds than 800Kbyt/sec
There is probably some problem with m0n0wall somewhere, has anyone an idea?

p.s. I'm using a SpeedTouch router in bridged mode so it is only an ADSL modem.

Hi xiqum,

I think it's a problem with adsl2 & monowall, weve both experienced exactly the same problem, monowall with adsl2 only gives you 800 - 1000 kbyt/sec down at best with the modem router in bridge mode.

All praise to monowall though, its totally solid and worked a treat and its free!

(maybe the devs will look into this issue for their next release).

Try IPcop, it sorted it out for me and like monowall it's free too, the only difference is that you need a hard drive in the pc running it. I'm getting 1.6 - 2 MB/s down now and it's rock solid

good luck

Mac