So I upgraded my internet connection to 100mbit/sec. This is something that I would have thought that I would do in three to four years, but it’s a reality now. All I had to do was to enable it on my admin page at my ISP (and also get a bigger bill next month!) and ten minutes later after a reboot of my firewall, I was up and running. This is the way to do it! And this on a sunday! Lovely.
But of course there was other problems. The first was my firewall. It’s a NetGear FR114P firewall. It has a 100mbit WAN port, which is something they are bosting about. Problem is, the throughput is around 10mbit/sec. So why put a 100mbit ethernet connector on the box?
So I rig an old linux machine with a 400 pentium II as a firewall using Astaro security Linux. Now It gets a little better; around 20mbit/sec. So I put an extra ethernet card in my Mac OS X Server machine and used it as a NAT firewall machine. And now it’s full speed! And it’s insanely fast.
The download limit is 300 gb per month, and both down/upload counts, so this could be a deal braker, but only time will tell…
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