General Questions

I am having this huge debate / argument with my isp. about the dsl service that i have, they are telling me that monowall will infact limit the throughput of there modem,

in fact there saying that my 768 up 3.0 down line will only be achieved if i discontinue the use of monowall, they also state that monowall can disrupt the service of the dsl signal from the line it self,

i infact know this not to be true but the speed issue i am concerned about will monowall slow or take any of the speed away the the connection? is there a % of loss with using monowall ?

If you don't enable the traffic shaper there is no way m0n0wall will slow things down.

Chainsaw...

so then the issuse still resides on there lines then i am having issue with loss of dsl signal and download speeds of liek 25kpb yep thats right

I have found that most phone companies and cable providers will always point a finger at something else before they admit the issue is with them.

My suggestion play by their rules until it gets fixed, then put the monowall back into place. I know it is a headache, but the line problems will get fixed faster.

i have proved that the monowall box is not the issue, but yes i have done that also and the line is still as crappy as ever, and now i just got off the phone with them and now there saying that router is not sending enough data to keep the line active.

omg can they be more desperate to try to pin t on something other than the line

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Based on my example of my existing setup. I would say YES. it slows down.

Hi devenomized:

That surprises me.  I have m0n0wall, and have never suspected it was slowing down data from my ISP.

Maybe something is accidentally set in your m0n0wall, to slow it down?

Hi adrian918:

You might want to directly connect your laptop or workstation, directly to the dsl modem from your ISP.

Configure your computer to talk directly to the ISP.  And then do a speed test.  I use Speakeasy a lot for the speedtests.

Then hook your m0n0wall back up and do the speed test again.  For me, it's the same, unless I am throttling the bandwidth.

Bob777,

I removed the Buffalo router. I have the monowall hooked up directly to the cable modem on port 1 of an Intel Gibabit PCI card (em4 drivers) and this PC on the onboard 10/100 NIC. I still get 10MB download speeds. I beginning to think that two things could be causing this. (please remember I bought this Visara PC on eBay.)

Maybe the fact that I have 1 PCI Intel gibabit card w/ 2 ports and only using one (i cannot get the other freaking port to work and it has nothing to do with configuring using the web interface or console) is causing the bandwidth to allocate equality to both ports and taht's why i get only 50% of the total bandwidth i would get w/o monowall?

or

Because my monowall runs on 16MB CF card, it's causing the slowdown?



any thoughts?

[On a net4501, m0n0wall provides a WAN <-> LAN TCP throughput of about 17 Mbps, including NAT, when run with the default configuration. On faster platforms (like net4801 or WRAP), throughput in excess of 50 Mbps is possible (and > 100 Mbps with newer standard PCs).]

I think I found my answer!

On a net4501, m0n0wall provides a WAN <-> LAN TCP throughput of about 17 Mbps, including NAT, when run with the default configuration. On faster platforms (like net4801 or WRAP), throughput in excess of 50 Mbps is possible (and > 100 Mbps with newer standard PCs).

Glad you found it. I didn't realize the WRAP was a faster board.

What program did you use to do that neat drawing?

so what your saying is that a standard pc will only have limeted throughput, but if i got the newest wraop board i may be able to exceed this,

but does the modem itself have a limit on the through put itself? so woudl not matter how much speed the router could handle if the modem it self was the bottleneck of it all

The Visara PC (Cyrix 266Mhz CPU) and its hardware does not meet the standard for my type of broadband. In other words, my PC is too slow for Monowall to allow 30MB/sec WAN to LAN; however, anything 10MB or lower speed it works like a charm.


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