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May 16, 2014 at 9:06 pm #43947
deamon_knight
MemberI’m running Zeroshell 3.0.0, and after a day or two of uptime , my maximum Internet speeds are being halved. My ISP supplies me with 15Mbit download, and several internet speed tests confirm this speed when a computer is connected directly to my Cable Modem.
When running through my Zeroshell system, I get the same full speed, 15 Mbit (as reported by internet speed tests) , but after a few days, I find that my internet speeds seem slower, and the same internet speed tests report a max download of 7-8 Mbit instead. Upload speeds don’t seem to be affected, 1Mbit in both cases. Rebooting the zeroshell system solves the problem for a few days at a time, but it keeps ocurring.
I’m running on an AMD e-350 CPU with 2GB RAM, I have 3 Network interfaces:
WAN on ETH00 Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) , this is a DHCP client from my ISP, reports as 100Mb/s Full Duplex.I have to LAN Interfaces:
ETH00 is (Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10) ) 100Mb/s Full Duplex
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WLAN00 Atheros AR2413/2414.
ETH00 and WLAN00 are bridged, BRIDGE00 and has an IP of 192.168.10.1
NAT is enabled on ETH01; and BRIDGE00 192.168.10.1 is enabled as a DHCP server. No other features are enabled.
Any suggestion as to why I’m having this problem or how to fix it?
Thanks
March 3, 2017 at 1:01 pm #53325Harley Ben
MemberFor clarity can you please post speedtest results? The settings seems fine from here. There shouldn’t be any problem with your connection or speed. I have the same setting here on my pc and the speed is just what my ISP provides me.
May 16, 2017 at 2:03 pm #53326mariad
MemberWhat is your internet connection speed?
May 16, 2017 at 5:13 pm #53327DrmCa
ParticipantI observed this behaviour when my router was connected to the DSL modem via a 100 Mbit USB to Ethernet adapter by DLink. Replaced that with an Intel based PCIe NIC and that solved the problem for good.
You are obviously connecting through a real NIC. I would only recommend replacing Realtek with Intel, but it is unlikely that is your issue. Dunno, sounds odd.
You do not need anywhere near 2 GB RAM. I am running with 256 MB just fine and ZS only peaks around 120 MB. My router has 1.6 GHz Atom now, previously it had a 2.2 GHz Celeron P4. So your hardware should be adequate to the downlink you have.
May 24, 2017 at 9:44 am #53328Harley Ben
Member@DrmCa wrote:
I observed this behaviour when my router was connected to the DSL modem via a 100 Mbit USB to Ethernet adapter by DLink. Replaced that with an Intel based PCIe NIC and that solved the problem for good.
You are obviously connecting through a real NIC. I would only recommend replacing Realtek with Intel, but it is unlikely that is your issue. Dunno, sounds odd.
You do not need anywhere near 2 GB RAM. I am running with 256 MB just fine and ZS only peaks around 120 MB. My router has 1.6 GHz Atom now, previously it had a 2.2 GHz Celeron P4. So your hardware should be adequate to the downlink you have.
PCie NIC?
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