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If you can run multiple simultaneous downloads and the combined speed of those downloads can reach 6.5 Megabytes/s that would imply a CPU limitation on the UTM.
Since IPS being turned on or off does not impact your download speed with a single connection, and in theory your CPU usage is very similar, that means the NICs are causing extremely high CPU usage in this scenario.
Your options to improve performance would be the following:
1) Replace the onboard NICs with something else (Intel/Broadcom card)
2) Hope that a future update reduces CPU overhead with those NICs
3) Be happy with 20 to 30 mbits per stream and accept that you will need more than one simultaneous transfer to max out your internet connection.
Since all of your networking equipment internally appears to be gigabit your layout is probably fine. Direct connection to the UTM ruled out your local network equipment being the issue.
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In a choice between Realtek and Intel NICs I will readily admit that Intel would be the better choice.
The three options presented are to make it better, hope it gets better, or accept it as it is and never be able to saturate the connection with a single stream. They go from best to worst options, they all have tradeoffs.
Making the system better is the best option putting aside any issue of cost. For anything other than a home user, this would probably be the only option.
As a side note, from a lowly Realtek NIC all the way up to a Solarflare NIC, you will not find an Ethernet adapter with zero overhead, you just end up with less overall overhead.
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Hi,
thanks again for your response. As I said some posts before, I didn't understand why some PCs reach full speed, and my PC was still slow and didn't get access to file share.
Now CPU load displayed by top is between 8 and 11 % (ssh), WebAdmin displays values between 5 and 13 %, and I get 56 Mbit/s – full speed!
What I’ve done:
- removed UTM and checked speed and access to file share on the local HP server; same bad download rates as with the UTM and still no access
I don’t know what happened, but something with the windows network protocol service must be wrong?! (As I told, I had no problems before I installed the UTM for the frist time to the local network)
- so I reinstalled windows 7; still UTM removed and now I got full speed and access to file share
- checked BIOS settings at the UTM, turned off any energy saving options and changed some other stuff
- wired the UTM as I told before: cable modem -> UTM (eth1) -> UTM (eth0) -> wlan access point -> switch 1 -> switch 2
Now I have full speed, access to file share and the CPU load is acceptable. IPS is still turned on.
Next step is to activate web protection. Have you configured some firewall rule like: internal network -> any service -> any? If I do not add this rule, some programs can't establish a connection the server they need to.
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