Re: [IPCop-user] IP Cop 2 Gigabit NIC PCI performance limitations

[David S. <dp...@dp...>]

Hi,

  Get yourself some Intel NIC cards... There are a few on ebay for around
$10... They will make a big difference....

Dave
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On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Rick Kunath wrote:

> Comments inline...
>
> On 02/22/2012 11:37 AM, David Meed wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Rick Kunath<k9...@ch...>  wrote:
> >> upgrading my current red/green P3 -500 MHz PCI based 10/100 NIC (2 PCI
> >> in cable connectivity speeds to a 100 down/5 up connection.
> >>
> >> I'm maxing download out now at about 36 megs, so need some additional
> >> headroom. I don't need full gigabit speeds to the Internet but I do need
> >> to exceed 100 Mbps for some  headroom.
> >
> > I'm curious what tools you are using to test that connection?  Is
> > there a chance that the other end (or the internet in between) is your
> > speed limitation on that download? I understand that many ISPs
> > throttle downloads after a short while to spread bandwidth around (ie-
> > first couple of megabytes come at wire speed, then the remainder is
> > throttled to allow other traffic room to fit in there).
>
> My ISP has a test server on their internal network. I've been using
> that. I had been getting some 80 to 95 meg speeds to the older test
> server they had in place. This machine had a 100baseTx port. It was
> replaced with a faster machine at another location. I never got anything
> better than 36 megs from that machine, or from any Speedtest.com site. I
> still don't know why there would have been the speed difference between
> the machines. But at least as far as speeds out to the Internet, I was
> never seeing more than the 35 megs approximately I was seeing from the
> newer internal est server.
>
> I then jacked a gigE laptop direct into the cable modem and boom, 100
> meg speeds. Back to the IP Cop box and again I'm at 35 to 36 megs. I
> can't explain why.
>
> > Are you able to get higher speeds without IPCop in place? (direct
> > connect to a test pc?)
>
> Yes. Full speeds I expect. 100 megs.
>
> > I was using a similar box (P3/633 mhz/128MRam) on a 3mbps connection
> > and someone thought the ipcop box was slowing us down.  Then we got a
> > cable connection (at least 30/2) and I've seen burst numbers as high
> > as 75 mbps (using speedtest.net) on the exact same box. Sustained test
> > results over 50, but a lot depends on the time of day and how busy the
> > rest of the internet is. I don't worry much about IPCop being a
> > bottleneck now.
> >
> >
> > Are you running any addons besides the vanilla IPCop?
>
> No. Pure stock IP Cop 2.0.4 and I'm not seeing any swap or low memory or
> high CPU utilization on the IP Cop box.
>
> > I did have another box with DansGuardian (CopPlus) installed that
> > would slow down considerably even on that 3mbps connection until we
> > added more memory.
>
> I can't explain why I wouldn't get at least 80 megs or so with the IP
> Cop box in place with the one test server, but did with the older one.
>
> The NIC cards are Linksys LNE100 cards and they are connected at 100
> megs. SHould be a 33 MHz PCI buss as far as I recall on the IP Cop box.
>
> I'd sure appreciate any thoughts before I go pick up 2 new GigE PCI
> cards for the box and still have issues.
>
> This couldn't be an IP Cop config issue could it?
>
> TIA,
> Rick Kunath
>
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