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.
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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