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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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  • 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..

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    One thing you did not mention is how the XG was configured when you did these tests.  Was it evaluating any of the traffic using the FW or Web filtering engines?

    If so, then then try installing an allow all rule at the top with no web, ips, appControl, or traffic-shaping policies setup - essentially just as straight a shot thru the XG as possible.

    It would be good to understand if the performance still suffers in this configuration.

  • 0 in reply to cyberzeus

    cyberzeus said:

    One thing you did not mention is how the XG was configured when you did these tests.  Was it evaluating any of the traffic using the FW or Web filtering engines?

    If so, then then try installing an allow all rule at the top with no web, ips, appControl, or traffic-shaping policies setup - essentially just as straight a shot thru the XG as possible.

    It would be good to understand if the performance still suffers in this configuration.

     

     

    The XG configuration was out of the box. I spun up a VM and installed the ISO. From there I connected two virtual NICs one WAN the other LAN. That was it. No config changes from what is delivered.

  • 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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    Justin Bed said:

     

    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. 

     

    Justin,

    1. In the Firewall Menu on the left, click on Network under Configure.

    2. On the Interfaces screen that comes up, click on Port 1

    3. Scroll down and click on Advanced Settings to expand it.

    4. Change the Interface Speed to 1000 Mbps - Full Duplex (if your Nic can handle it)

    Sometimes the Auto Negotiation doesn't work properly, like on the NIC in my Zotac Zbox