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Web Browing Slowness

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Currently, I "locked down" my Firewall with NO LAN -> Internet = Allow Rule.

This way, it is 100% via the HTTP Proxy which works.

But it is Really Significant slowness as long as I disable the LAN -> Internet Rule.

For DNS, I set it to use Astaro who in turn use Open DNS.

But I do not understand how come the browsing performance is significantly slower.

If I just turn on the rule, it simply is faster.

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0 Scott_Klassen over 14 years ago

Right now still many sites not in the database and can block very badly
No website categorization system is perfect given that many thousands of new sites are added to the web every day. You can check the categorization for a site at TrustedSource - Check Single URL. Choose MacAfee SmartFilter XL. If a site has no categorization yet or you feel that it is miscategorized, you can submit a change request. I've found that when I do this, changes take effect anywhere from 4-24 hours if accepted.

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0 Scott_Klassen over 14 years ago

Right now still many sites not in the database and can block very badly
No website categorization system is perfect given that many thousands of new sites are added to the web every day. You can check the categorization for a site at TrustedSource - Check Single URL. Choose MacAfee SmartFilter XL. If a site has no categorization yet or you feel that it is miscategorized, you can submit a change request. I've found that when I do this, changes take effect anywhere from 4-24 hours if accepted.

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0 Alvin over 14 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

Thank You Scott

- I do understand no database is perfect.
- Hopefully there is some mechanism in that Trusted Source to start checking those that it reflect as Uncatagorized.
- Yes I read about this Trusted Sources - can be tedious to keep filling up the form.
- I am in Singapore thus maybe since not in the US and many local sites simply is unknown to the rest of the world.
- But I do get CNBC Blocked at times ! I simply type in the username and password to get pass as it is intermittent.

- It is also confusing when on the main tab, there is a Block Uncatagorized and under the URL Filtering Catagories whereby we can choose, there is also a Uncatagorized.

- I think I would do the "none" follow by a restart.
- Then I do the "mem" follow by a restart.
- I want to see how my initial attempts took so long before it works, this time I would simply wait until it is ready.

- So I am looking at about 1.5GB usage out of my 3GB. (The only reason I did not go for 4GB is because some post somewhere told me the Software Version would only use 3GB)

- Which means those Astaro Appliance cannot support it in the MEM and would be on DISK = Lousy performance.

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0 Sascha Paris over 14 years ago in reply to Alvin

Thank You Scott

- So I am looking at about 1.5GB usage out of my 3GB. (The only reason I did not go for 4GB is because some post somewhere told me the Software Version would only use 3GB)
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Who told you this ? 8.2 can be installed as 64bit version, which natively fully supports your 4GB [;)] (Previous 32bit Versions also were able to handle >4GB Memory, but required manual installation of a BigSMP Kernel...)
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