Mumble

[Phatso]

(i am not trying to derail.. but HOLYSHIT @ your network Denis)

[Skouperd]

Thanks Phatso, it does work very nicely when it works... emphasis on WHEN it works!

Hi Mega, I can with a 100% confidence say there are definitely no Virus / Trojans / worms / hacks / cracks / brute force attacks / or any other form of bad stuff you get from the internet on any of the machines on the internal network. Even though I don't run antivirus on my gaming machines, I do run full automated antivirus scans every morning on all the servers. If I do pick up something on one of the servers, I will hunt it down and destroy it! (but only after I figured out how it got into the internal network and plugged it's hole) As I don't manage the two RB433's (CTWUG admin does) I've put in RB3 to ensure my internals stay clean. However too put your mind at ease, just to be sure before I redid the whole network a couple of weeks ago, I ran full antivirus scans on all the internal computers and they all came out clean.

Stu, the way that the firewalls are setup, you are correct yes, they do analyze the connections that is made and for certain unknown connections, they actually interrogate individual packets further. However, all the firewalls that is used is dedicated hardware based with CPU's dedicated just for that purpose. The average CPU utilization is less than 5% on them (these Mikrotik routers are demons for the price you pay!) To put the power of those routers (firewalls) into perspective, the RB433 and RB433AH carries by far the most external traffic on my network, and pull in excess of 1.5TB of uploads/downloads per day (during their peaks) and that includes them having to run full firewalls, and OSPF routing on them. I don't even think that that is their limits, as I am sure Murgs router will need to be able to handle even more traffic since all Jarrod and Slodaz porn has to goes through his connection... (ps this is the first time that the pings to the ISP is consistently so high, so the ADSL router sounds like it is on it's last legs)

Any event, long story short, so after fooling around with Mumble, I found out it is not mumble, even tough I did manage to reduce it (and Teamspeak BadAss still uses TS) usage. I think I have now narrowed down the culprit to one of two areas:

1. The ADSL router (which is unfortunately a very dumb router to say the least, and she is not capable to tell me where it hurts...), or
2. My ADSL line going to the exchange, which I am unfortunately not equip to test

I can ping the ADSL router in less than 1ms, but my ping to my service provider first hop, with nothing whatsoever on the network going over the ADSL line, is in excess of 300ms. Unfortunately I don't have a substitute ADSL router to test it out. Will try and source one tomorrow and see if that solves it, or else it is me and my buddies from Telkom that is going to have a long and hard discussion... I am so looking forward to that.... NOT!.