Recent content by 9lives

Okay, Intel 4965 arrived and fitted. CPU consumption reduced to similar levels to the USB adapters. I added an extra 3rd antenna while I was at it. The Intel 6200 is a POS, the Winmodem of wifi cards. Raw throughput was good but the load on the system was ridiculous.

I have, and it is the kernel that is hogging all the time. You have to enable kernel times before you can see this. The driver executes in the kernel, so this strongly suggests that it is the card's driver. As I say, other cards and the original 4000 series card were all fine. I might try an...

Thanks tipster, but it didn't help. The card doesn't seem to support TCP Chimney offload. There is no option to enable it in the driver, and even after enabling it from the command line netstat shows that no new connections have been offloaded. Reading a bit about it apparently hardly any...

Hi guys. It is a Panasonic Let's Note CF-Y7 running Windows 7 x86. 2.5GB RAM and an SSD for storage. As I say the old card and USB cards all work fine, it is just that Intel 6200 that sucks. The laptop's modem is already disabled in the BIOS, and it is the latest version. All I meant was...

Hi. I have a laptop which originally came with an Intel 802.11bg (4000 series, can't remember exactly which one). I wanted to upgrade to 802.11n so bought an Intel 6200 card, but the CPU load performance is terrible! My laptop has a dual core LV Core 2 CPU, which is adequate for most stuff...

This suggests that it should be possible if certain conditions are met: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18784&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 So you need to use WPA/WPA2 with a pre-shared key. Different channels but the same SSID. As you say, it appears that the client...

I need two APs to get adequate signal in my entire house. I am using Buffalo routers with Tomato and I also have a Fonera 2200 running DD-WRT I can use. At the moment both APs are using the same SSID but on different channels. The problem is my devices don't switch from one to the other...

Only 10/100 LAN... I have built a HD media centre PC which has gigabit but is currently connected via a 10/100 switch. The performance is noticeably degraded compared to gigabit. My current NAS has crappy Marvell gigabit LAN controller, which is connected via the PCI bus. It's a £21 ($15)...

I forgot to mention the most important benchmark. I get around 15MB/sec average for file transfers with SMB. Doesn't seem to matter if it's a SATA drive, PATA drive or USB. Via boards are really expensive too. At least Atom is cheap, and apparently it performs. To be honest AMD's 690g (or...

There does not seem to be an easy way of doing multiple IPs in pfSense, but it looks like it might be possible with some hacking. I'm really looking for a simple solution though... I use a Fonera running DD-WRT as an access point. It's not bad but for some reason WPA2 does not seem to work...

I think it should be fine if my PIII 600MHz never gets above 10% even with heavy P2P. I think even the 300MHz Geode would be okay if it just wasn't for the terrible Realtek NIC. I have looked into it and pfSense does sort of support dual WAN, but it seems to be mainly aimed at load balancing...

I currently have two pfSense boxes, but they are using quite a lot of electricity so I want to replace them with lower power systems, preferably off-the-shelf routers (perhaps with replacement firmware). The two current systems: 20/1Mb connection Pentium III 650MHz (underclocked)...

I'd be interested to see how this thing performs. I have a 1.2GHz C7 based NAS running at the moment. I'm using an EPIA board with built-in gigabit ethernet. Performance is absolutely terrible. The gigabit LAN seems to be limited to about 30MB/sec, even in artificial tests (iperf etc). I...

Okay, thanks jdabbs, that second link to the 7GB one finally worked. I guess I will just have to hope the shmoo tracker comes back up.

I looked there, but as I said in my first post, the torrent links are dead so I can't download them. I understand the limitations of the tables, but they are still worth having. The only realistic alternative is to do a dictionary attack which takes a lot longer. If that fails, brute force is...