General Questions

Hello all. First of all I`m from Bulgaria and I don`t speak English so well.
So, I have one m0n0wall box (PIII 733 mhz , 96 MB of RAM, 200 MB of HDD)
My general problem is thah the upload of my clients os 1 kb/s. My upload channe; is 4 mbps. I have configured the pipes corectly, the download speed is OK, but the upload... It is gone.And my other problem is that the internet pages load slowly, but the download speed is OK...  Can somebody help me?
Greetings, Dido

The Traffic Shaper can introduce some latency to the connection.  How is it if you disable the traffic shaper?

What makes you say the download speed is OK if pages are loading slowly?

If your upload speed is limited to 1kb/s then this is not sufficient bandwidth to accommodate the ACK packets to maintain good download speed. In other words, a server serving TCP packets will slow down its rate of sending if it is not getting receipt acknowledgments from the client (you). The upload bandwidth requirement to sustain a download will vary according to the type of traffic, but I've typically observed a 2.5% reverse-direction traffic for any transfer. Thus, if your upload is truly limited to 8 kbps, then your download is not likely to sustain more than about 1/.025=40kb/s.

As markb suggested, try disabling the traffic shaper. If that corrects the problem, re-enable it and add your pipes, queues, and rules stepwise to try to catch the problem entry.

db