Hello all. I just started at a new company as the net admin and they are using a Watchguard III 700 here and apparently it has been a problem or so for the last week before I got here that they are having bandwidth issues. Here is the problem:
If I perfom a bandwidth test inside the firewall, I get some crazy up and down speeds of 673 kps down and 919 kps up. If I plug in outside of the firewall and run the same test, I get 1024 kps down and 994 kps up. Mind you that this is a full T1 we are talking about here. Now, this is where it gets weird. If I disconnect everyone form the lan on the inside and do my test again on the outside, I get my full T1 speed or close to it, 1495 kps down and maybe 1392 kps upload speeds. At this point, I don't know if it is a firewall issue or something with one of the switches internally or what but before I go out and replace this box, I would want to be sure that it was the problem and not something else. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.
If I perfom a bandwidth test inside the firewall, I get some crazy up and down speeds of 673 kps down and 919 kps up. If I plug in outside of the firewall and run the same test, I get 1024 kps down and 994 kps up. Mind you that this is a full T1 we are talking about here. Now, this is where it gets weird. If I disconnect everyone form the lan on the inside and do my test again on the outside, I get my full T1 speed or close to it, 1495 kps down and maybe 1392 kps upload speeds. At this point, I don't know if it is a firewall issue or something with one of the switches internally or what but before I go out and replace this box, I would want to be sure that it was the problem and not something else. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.