Yet another router question...

Street

Street

Street

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I've been running a Freesco box here for around half a year, and although its about a million times better than the old Netgear router I used to use, it still seems to crash fairly regularly. I know this is mainly down to the number of connections that everyone here is trying to force through the router, mainly torrents.

Just wondering if there is a way to increase the NAT table size? Or the timeouts for connections in the NAT so it speeds it up a bit. Failing that, what are Monowall, Smoothwall or IPCop like? Are they better than Freesco? Which one of those would people recommend?

Is it possible to set up QoS on any of those? Or is it worth me splashing out on a more expensive router that can handle more connections and also does QoS?

Cheers,
Andy
 
Can't really comment on how stable it is while torrenting, but IPCop will definitely do layer 7 packet inspection and QoS.
 
Yeh, I've just been looking a bit more into IPCop and it seems like it could be quite good.. I'll have to give it a bash and see how reliable it is.
 
Street said:
Yeh, I've just been looking a bit more into IPCop and it seems like it could be quite good.. I'll have to give it a bash and see how reliable it is.
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I'd also recommend taking a look at PFSense (www.pfsense.com). It's based on m0n0wall, but it's more aimed towards PCs (m0n0 was aimed mainly at embedded devices). It has the same traffic shaping tools as m0n0wall.
 
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