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Free XG Firewall (Home) install - SPEEDTEST.NET results are poor

Justin Bed

Hi,

I'm looking at trying to limit my daughter's (10 years old) internet access. She keeps falling down the YouTube rabbit hole. My current home router limits all access or none. There is no timed limit.  I'd like to have Facetime, iMessage, email and generally google/edu access most of the time and streaming limited to some of the time.  So I started looking at XG Firewall for Home.

Three house members with a total of 20 devices. (Laptops, Pis, Desktop, iPhones etc..)

My question at the moment is more around speed or the lack of when using it.

I've completed a fresh install of XG onto a VMWare Workstation (12.5) running on a Windows 7 host GB single ethernet card. I've given the VM 4 vCPU and 6GB of RAM. Virtual HDD is 20GB on an SSD. 

The VM has two virtual network cards one assigned to LAN the other to WAN.

With this Windows 7 workstation using the standard router gateway, speedtest.net gives me the following speed test results.

Speed without XG

When I change the workstation to use the LAN IP address of the XG FIrewall as the gateway I get the following

Speed results with XG Firewall as the gateway

I'm barely getting one third (1/3) of the usual download speed and the upload speed is only two thirds (2/3) of the maximum available.

Is this the 'home version' limitation? or is it that my VM running on a Windows 7 host and I should be able to easily achieve the speeds I see when I don't use XG.

 



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    Hi,

    first things first, the home licence is not choked in anyway other then max of 6gb and 4cpus. NBN, lucky you.

    I expect that

    1/. your disk allocation is too small, needs at least 60gb

    2/. your windows 7 will be the partial issue, your putting 3 layers of software where there should be one maybe 2. W7 is not a high performance OS, designed for screen not background tasks.

    3/. you really should have minimum of 2 and in your case maybe 3 NICs

    4/. please review the IPS tabs to see if there are any packet drops and if so untick the box and rerun the test.

    5/. you are better off using and old PC with extra NIC cards to at least get you running.

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    rfcat_vk said:

    1/. your disk allocation is too small, needs at least 60gb

    You do not need at least 60gb. I’m running a 32gb SSD and I have no issues getting 900Mbps on my Qotom device with an Intel Core i5-5250U with 4gb of RAM. With IPS enabled, it drops to about 350Mbps, but my understanding is Snort is not multi-threaded like Suricata. I’m not sure why hard drive space would even have anything to do with network throughput. I highly recommend the Qotom devices if you’re looking for a fairly cheap home solution. I got mine from Aliexpress for about $270.

  • 0 in reply to shred

    Hi Shred,

    that was the name I was searching for, thank you.

    The small disk will fill up, your work area for large down loads will be affected in a  multi user environment.

    My machine is currently running 6gb of ram and using 50% so 4gb will be stretching the friendship a little. My memory went 47% to 51% when I added an extra ISP channel and VLANs with associated firewall rules. Memory use increases as the link speed goes up listening to other users.

    I can't advise on speed throughput other than past tests, my ISP links are slowly dropping below 4mb/s. For a home user you can disable some of the IPS functions as a first part of your testing then tune it later as you become more comfortable with the XG software.

    ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Thanks for the help. Especially around the NIC brand.  I've ordered a Qotom i5-4200U w/ 8GB RAM and 64Gb SSD.

    Now to learn how to limit my kid's access :)

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Yeah, hard drive space requirements will completely depend on your requirements. I just think it’s important to not spread misinformation with statements such as “60gb minimum”. For a fairly basic home network with 20 devices and three users (as the original post mentions), I personally don’t think you would ever use 60gb. My understanding is disk size primarily fills up when you cache web data, which I don’t think is even enabled by default.

    As for RAM, I’m running 4gb and sitting at 61% usage with 33 devices on my network, one gig internet service, web proxy and IPS enabled. Again, hardware requirements completely depend on your setup but 4gb is plenty for my usage which is a fairly typical home setup.

  • 0 in reply to Justin Bed

    My Qotom's are somewhat less capable than the one you ordered so you should have more than enough HP to get the job done.  

    Re: limiting kid's access - Web & App filters are about to become your best friends..

  • 0 in reply to cyberzeus

    cyberzeus said:

    My Qotom's are somewhat less capable than the one you ordered so you should have more than enough HP to get the job done.  

    Re: limiting kid's access - Web & App filters are about to become your best friends..

     

     

    Any tips?

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