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Title: Is dfl-800 a fast firewall ?
Post by: xavierbt on August 02, 2011, 05:41:13 AM

Hi all,

I have a DFL-800 as gateway using two adsl. The configuration is working as expected, but i have found that looks like it was an slow gateway. Specially when the firewall gets around 2000 connections (downloading torrent) i feel very slow if i try to navigate from another computer. You can't navigate. Before I had a  Linksys rv082 and haven't experienced slow internet access.

Is a dfl800 a slow firewall ? Could be my settings the trouble ? Any advice ?

regards

Title: Re: Is dfl-800 a fast firewall ?
Post by: danilovav on August 02, 2011, 01:44:52 PM

DFL-800 supports up to 20K connections and 150 mbit/sec performance
When you tries, what values was about CPU, memory usage? What was your download speed?
Maybe, you need to set up QoS to prioritize HTTP before other protocols

Title: Re: Is dfl-800 a fast firewall ?
Post by: scrubsguy on August 03, 2011, 10:20:47 PM

@ the end of the what would you define as fast? i am running a couple of DFL's my smallest the dfl-210 and is managing a network of 70 users +

speed wise no hassles

Title: Re: Is dfl-800 a fast firewall ?
Post by: chechito on August 12, 2011, 05:24:24 PM

I use a dfl 210 less powerfull than dfl 800 using torrent without connections limit at the same time using emule without connections limit.

Firewall doesnot show cpu usage over 20% using 10mbit down 4mbit up

Using qos to get navigation priorized over p2p traffic you can navigate even with p2p bandwidth unlimited i think netdefend firewall are more powerfull than any home or soho product except last generation cavium and marvell processor routers

Title: Re: Is dfl-800 a fast firewall ?
Post by: scrubsguy on August 14, 2011, 10:37:38 PM

ok.. for using torrents.... i would agree, but then again, rather setup a linux based firewall if you want to download torrents..works a lot better, coz you can then store your data on he linux machine and share it on a media player.