Router settings for Vodafone Biznet connection

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toyonut

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#143022 1-Apr-2014 12:38

Hi we have a Biznet connection delivered to our CHCH office that went in last week on Friday. We have been working with Vodafone to try and troubleshoot why it is having very slow download performance. We have tried to remedy this by setting the Watchguard firewall unit to 100 mbps full duplex instead of auto detect and it has not helped. We are still getting 3mbps down and 3 mbps up on speedtest and those in the office are saying everything is very slow. I believe the biznet connection we have is a 10/5 connection delivered through an ethernet port installed on the wall.
If anyone has a document with recommended router settings for a biznet connection that would be great to have something to compare our config to.

We are currently setting up a Cisco 881 router as a test as well to see if it is the watchguard hardware/config that is faulty.

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#1016506 1-Apr-2014 12:38

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#1016598 1-Apr-2014 14:23

No rate limiting policies on the Watchguard ?

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toyonut

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#1016672 1-Apr-2014 17:00

Not that I can find, It is pretty close to standard config really. Just loaded the latest 11.8.3 firmware update and that is pretty much it. The rule set it pretty limited and should not be interfering. Disabling the extra rules does not make a difference to speed.

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