Issue's with RRAS server

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Situation: I rolled out a new server package at one of my jobs recently. Due to the fact that they were recently a peer to peer network, they were upgraded to a Windows 2000/2003 server enviroment. Originally, they has a Linksys wireless router that assigned IP addresses. Since the DHCP server was rolled out, this was not needed, but I would need a way to share internet connectivity with the computers. I researched Internet Connection Sharing and RRAS and chose RRAS for its security and configuration ability. RRAS was setup with the basic NAT/basic firewall settings, ports that needed forwarding, etc.

I setup RRAS with success but ran into a major problem. User’s are complaining about slow internet speeds. Example: I type in www.pittspeed.com and go to the site, everything will load up fine but the actual reaction time on loading is slow. I will take anywhere from 10-20 seconds for a page to load.

I checked internet speeds via a speedtest and everything was correct with our DSL package (3.0mb down/ 768up). So that was out of the question.

I looked through the RRAS conguration and everything seemed to be in the correct order. My question then is:

  1. Are there speed/response time issue with using RRAS?
  2. If yes, are there ways to solve this issue?
  3. Are there any other suggestions to software/hardware to use other then RRAS?

Thanks!
Sean

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  1. yes
  2. get rid of it, it sucks
  3. go back to your router situation
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How’s the traceroute look?

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Here is the trace route I ran:

http://www.pittspeed.com/uploaded/tracert.jpg

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Route good. RRAS bad.

:whitey:

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yea def use a router in this situation

too much overhead using RRAS