>> I have 5mb cable and with pfsense I was getting just about same
>> speed than even without a router (straight to internet). With M0n0wall
>> (both latest versions) the Internet CRAWLS for me. Webpages load like
>> dial-up, etc. I did a dslreports speedtest out of curiousity and it
>> came back with 45 kbs down and 25kbs up!! M0n0wall turns my cable
>> modem into Dial-up. I only have one rule added to firewall and the
>> rest is pretty much default.

> duplex mismatch issue? 


Ohh how funny... I just went to the event viewer on my client PC and
sure enough there are error messages stating something to the effect
that auto-negotiation failed on my Intel NIC. So I assume it
downgrades to half when it fails?

Now the question is why does it fail with m0n0 and not pfsense? Did I
miss something in setup or is it the fault of the 4x version of BSD,
etc?

Thanks for the fast reply too.


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