I had a similar experience with an 8-port SMC Barricade router. I'd upgraded the connection with our ISP, and we didn't get any additional speed out of it. I discovered that the SMC just didn't have the horsepower to keep up, so I replaced it with a 400 MHz Ultra5 running OpenBSD. Problem solved.
__________________
Linux/Network-Security Engineer by Profession. OpenBSD user by choice.
|