I have recently purchased a PIX 501 50 user firewall which I must say I really like. I have used numerous home user firewalls in the past and one commercial firewall for my home network and I must say that even with my minimal knowledge of the PIX to this point I have had less problems than with any of the other firewalls.
Anyway on to my questions:
1. The stated clear text throughput of the PIX 501 is rated at 60mbps. In a book that I have on the PIX states that "the first port has no 100mbps LED because this port only operates at 10mbps." I am assuming that the PIX has been upgraded and the light now only indicated a Link connection and is rated above 10mbps? Is this correct.
2. I ask the above because my ISP cable connection that I have is rated up to 15 mbps down and 2 mbps up. I have not really been able to obtain anything consistently over 5000 kbps down except that I did get one cable modem speed test of 17094 Kbps or 21371.8 KBps as reported to me after the test. While I realize that the cable modem is a shared pool I would think that I would be getting a constant 11-15 mbps for the speed that I am paying for. I think that this may have ansered my first question as it appears that I have exceeded the 10 mbps as stated in the book.
3. Is there anything that I can tweak in the PIX 501 that may be affecting the throughput? I seem to rarely use more than 6-8 licenses as reported in use.
Thanks in advance,
