PIX 515E Unrestricted Performance

[HenriettaHog]

I recently turned up a Comcast 50/10 circuit. The advertised throughput will be 10meg up and 50meg down. The best I am able to achieve is 13meg down and 8meg up. What is the best performance that I can get passing through the pix 515e firewall with only two interfaces configured and 2 vpn tunnels defined and active. I am not allowing any traffic in except that coming in through the vpn tunnels.

Thanks
HenriettaHog

 

[brianinms]

The throughput of a Pix 515e is 190mbps.

 

[joaott]

dont forget to configure traffic shapping,otherwise PIX packets will be dropped in the core.

 

[nosebreaker]

To be honest, the advertised speeds by most cable companies aren't indicative of what you actually get. They do traffic shaping on their end, such that the first few packets of a connection go through faster than subsequent ones so that those speedtest websites show you have a fast link. I'm not sure how you are measuring your speed. If you plug a machine directly into the internet link does it go faster (are you sure the pix is the slow point)?