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Originally Posted by MikeyB
I did notice that Kerio was high cpu usage.
I tried turning off various options (NIPS being one of them), but it made no difference to the speed, only thing that did was turning it off completely, so I've now un-installed Kerio.
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What are you using in its place? or you have no firewall now?
I have tried a few firewalls on 10meg and I found they all seem to use around the same amount of cpu with base functions, and the ones that do packet inspection when turned on will use much more cpu.
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alternative test not on ntl's network.
http://www.chrysalisnet.org/ntl/hfspeedtest2.html
Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:26:27 UTC
1st 512K took 359 ms = 1426.2 KB/sec, approx 11752 Kbps, 11.48 Mbps
2nd 512K took 438 ms = 1169 KB/sec, approx 9633 Kbps, 9.41 Mbps
3rd 512K took 484 ms = 1057.9 KB/sec, approx 8717 Kbps, 8.51 Mbps
4th 512K took 1063 ms = 481.7 KB/sec, approx 3969 Kbps, 3.88 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 8518 Kbps, 8.32 Mbps
Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:28:09 UTC
1st 512K took 453 ms = 1130.2 KB/sec, approx 9313 Kbps, 9.09 Mbps
2nd 512K took 406 ms = 1261.1 KB/sec, approx 10391 Kbps, 10.15 Mbps
3rd 512K took 531 ms = 964.2 KB/sec, approx 7945 Kbps, 7.76 Mbps
4th 512K took 422 ms = 1213.3 KB/sec, approx 9998 Kbps, 9.76 Mbps
Overall Average Speed = approx 9412 Kbps, 9.19 Mbps