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I am running version 8.103 HOME License on a Dell Optiplex GX 620 (all I had around the house). When I first started I had it behind my SonicWall so I could learn and play with rules without exposing my network. Life was grand. I have since tried removing the SonicWall and when I do the web browsing speed drops to almost nothing. It is almost like I'm being attacked and the Dell hardware can't handle the load. And yet when I look at the hardware usage (2011-06-11_2013 - DanKimble's library) I'm not seeing any heavy loads. (The empty spot is when we lost power for 12 hours).

Thoughts please as I'm really liking Astaro and am not wanting to have to upgrade my SonicWall.

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0 William Warren over 14 years ago

OK, I'll give it another try. Might not be until Thursday night before I have time though. In the meantime here are some hardware answers:

Cable Modem: Scientific Atlanta 2100
Cable Provider: Time Warner Cable (supposedly 12M down and 415k up)
Brand new CAT5e patch cable between modem and Asatara.
Astara box: Dell as I mentioned before with 4Gig RAM
WAN Nic: (PCI card) 3Com 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] - at least that is what Asatara says it is.
LAN Nic: (On-board) Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

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I would try putting in an intel nic and seeing if that helps. Make sure to power down cable modem before the nic swap

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0 KimbleFamily over 14 years ago in reply to William Warren

OK, sorry for the delay. I have a couple of time-sensitive projects I'm working on.

I followed the steps suggested: unplugged SonicWall, unplugged cable modem, connected Astaro WAN to cable modem (left NIC enabled), plugged in cable modem, waited 5+ minutes. I had Internet access but speed was only about .5M down.

So, powered down Astaro, unplugged cable modem, unplugged patch cable from cable modem, went and did some painting for about 10 minutes. Plugged patch cable back in, turned on Astaro, waited for it to beep at me, plugged in cable modem, went and cleaned up paint brushes, had Internet access but speed was still in the .5M down range.

At this point I need to get to work so I unplugged patch cable between cable modem and Astaro and plugged it into SonicWall, reconnected other patch from SonicWall to Astaro, plugged in SonicWall, Internet connection was reestablished, download speed was 10M+ down.

I do have a SMC1211Tx EzCard10/100 and a D-Link DFE-530TX that I can try in the Astaro instead of the 3Com.

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0 KimbleFamily over 14 years ago in reply to William Warren

OK, sorry for the delay. I have a couple of time-sensitive projects I'm working on.

I followed the steps suggested: unplugged SonicWall, unplugged cable modem, connected Astaro WAN to cable modem (left NIC enabled), plugged in cable modem, waited 5+ minutes. I had Internet access but speed was only about .5M down.

So, powered down Astaro, unplugged cable modem, unplugged patch cable from cable modem, went and did some painting for about 10 minutes. Plugged patch cable back in, turned on Astaro, waited for it to beep at me, plugged in cable modem, went and cleaned up paint brushes, had Internet access but speed was still in the .5M down range.

At this point I need to get to work so I unplugged patch cable between cable modem and Astaro and plugged it into SonicWall, reconnected other patch from SonicWall to Astaro, plugged in SonicWall, Internet connection was reestablished, download speed was 10M+ down.

I do have a SMC1211Tx EzCard10/100 and a D-Link DFE-530TX that I can try in the Astaro instead of the 3Com.

Dan
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