Recent content by Dennis Wood

Quickbooks doesn't recommend NAS for company data file storage, as I believe they prefer their database manager running to monitor the data file. We run the database manager on Server 2012. SSD drives are always going to be better IMHO, as their seek times are so much faster. Database look...

If you're looking for fast quickbooks access, consider a 10Gbe NIC on both workstations (note the last paragraph in this post!) , and sharing the database on SSD from one of them. We run QB over 10Gbe (data files on a dedicated INtel 530 series SSD good for 500MB/s read/write on Windows Server...

We've been backing up a Windows 2012R2 server to a "dedicated backup drive" which is actually an iSCSI target on the QNAP TS870 NAS. This allows us to backup over 10Gbe, without size limitations as the QNAP NAS has a 20TB RAID array to match the server. The downside is that if you needed to do...

Here's a thread that might help answer that question..I have zero experience with IPTV: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=100444.0 and he moves to this thread: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=100464.0 SF, not running SNORT sure saves a lot of RAM :)

To answer the question of resource use, here's what I'm seeing as "max" CPU load so far with the WAN connection at max DSL for the home office. The work 50/25 fibre connection is much faster..CPU load there hits 31% or so with max bandwidth. There are no fans in/on either of the routers..temps...

Also make sure your default LAN rules reference WAN2 specifically for LAN to WAN traffic .. not a gateway group if you've created it, or WAN1. Had to do a few tweaks like this after going from dual WAN load balancing, to single fibre WAN. If the default rule to pass LAN to WAN traffic...

Thanks for the tip. Both routers are running perfectly..particularly now at the business side with fibre.

Thanks for that. Does this ack actually enable any features, or is just suppress an error? I mod'd the conf.local file and the error is gone...just not sure if it changed anything.

SF, I was pondering the absence of AES-NI, but I've found the few sessions of OpenVPN we typically run don't seem to tax the box anywhere close to capacity. Thanks for the PowerD tips..I was using this on the old boxes but need to revisit on the new build. I had an interesting time with the...

I generally just look at pfsense packaged hardware offerings and their suggestions for throughput, load etc. The box I built would be appropriate for a small to medium office. We had fiber installed today and we're pretty happy to upload finally at 25Mbps speeds. We can dial up the speed...

It ranges between 10 and 25 users or so on the business side, plus a fair amount of rsync and RTRR traffic between sites. The business site is getting 80/25 Fibre in a week or so, so the dual WAN requirement will go away. I maintain the identical router configuration at the home office, so...

L, they do I believe have Wifi versions of this box..just not sure on the tech. I'm using a few EX7000 units as wired access points, which allow me me place them more appropriately to provide AC class wifi for the home office... and a few EAP 600 units at the office. The 8GB of ram means we...

I swapped the two 2011 vintage boxes over to 2.3.1-RELEASE-p5 (amd64), then backed up the configuration. The Qotoms got a fresh 2.3.1 install using USB. Restoring the old config (a lot of time invested there!) onto the new boxes was super simple. The pfsense web gui prompts you to reassign...

Here's the 2016 updated build. It's pretty inexpensive at $257 but has 8GB of RAM and a 120GB mSATA drive. PfSense 2.3.1 has come a long way, but the original boxes were due for replacement. We've been using pfsense for some time now, and found the 5 yr old mini-itx build routers max'd out at...

It's been some time since posting here, but I'd figure I'd post an updated build to compliment the "Confessions of a PfSense newbie" sticky: http://www.snbforums.com/threads/confessions-of-a-pfsense-newbie.5379/ The build in 2011 used 29 watts, the 2016 Qotom version uses only 10 watts (max of...