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How to check if my hardware is impeding with browsing speed, or download speed?

Hi. I used an old white Sophos UTM 110/120 box as my XG Home firewall. It has been working fine, with no hickups. But it does take a long time to refresh a page, or load a report. Say 5s. I am wondering if this is in any way slowing down serving up web pages? I have 50 Mbps Fiber download, and about 40 Mbps upload. I use usenet. When I download files using SABNZBD, I can see I'm downloading at 5.6 MBps speeds. Which is about right. Does downloading from usenet represent downloading a lot of small files? I understand it's taxing to the hardware if I download a lot of small files at the same time. And yet, downloading usenet at 5.6 MBps seems to be alright. Though in surfing, it takes a second or so to serve up some pages. I have changed my DNS from 8.8.8.8 to 1.1.1.1 (cloudflare). it helped a bit. How do I analyze further?

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0 rfcat_vk over 6 years ago

Hi,

I would check your memory and cpu load in the GUI. I suspect you are running out of memory and the box is swapping.

Ian
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0 jang430 over 6 years ago in reply to rfcat_vk

I'm using SFOS 17.1.3 MR-3

My hardware is based on Intel Atom N450 released 2010 :D

With CPU, I am barely going over 60%. With memory, I've reached as high as 90%. But nothing that indicates it reached 100%. Most of the time, it's about 60%. Is this a cause for concern?
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0 rfcat_vk over 6 years ago in reply to jang430

Hi Jang430,

there is a load indicator in the GUI, does that show green, orange or red?

Ian
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0 rfcat_vk over 6 years ago in reply to jang430

Hi Jang430,

there is a load indicator in the GUI, does that show green, orange or red?

Ian
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0 jang430 over 6 years ago in reply to rfcat_vk

It's green. Wondering if that's the only indicator? So as long as all is green, should be healthy?
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0 LuCar Toni over 6 years ago in reply to jang430

Would suggest to start with the basics:

https://lifehacker.com/top-10-ways-to-deal-with-a-slow-internet-connection-514138634

Most of the time, some addon or the DNS cause such issues. Most likely DNS in your case, if the DNS is already resolved, it is fast. But if you have to lookup everything 5s is a long run.
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