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Now there is actually a Google support page for bypassing the network box (GF router) https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/6032607?hl=en But in the early days.... http://flyovercountry.org/2014/02/google-fiber-gigabit-speeds-your-router-part-1-vlans/ And finally, you have to remember that we want full gbit speeds over whatever solution we go with.

What hardware are you running it on? I would like to run it on my unRaid server, but that is a bit risky.... I have a spare i5 2500k that could be put into service and a 4 port card. That would be a dedicated box.... But I have google fiber and getting rid of the network box that GF calls a router is not so easy. Those who have done it have had to jump through flaming hoops to get GF to work without the GF box. Right now my VPN is running on my unRaid (peter's plugin), so likely the pfsense wouldn't improve much there. unRaid is a 2670 Xeon based system so lots of power to run the VPN. What I am missing is the power to log and analyze the traffic. And the flexibility to bolt the network down tightly.

I have been using dd-wrt for almost 20 years on various router hardware and have appreciated the extra functionality, the stability and the ease of use. But this sounds like it might be time to consider other options. I'm no network engineer, but willing to create strategic foundations for the home and business that make good sense. I just am not ready to muck around and fix something that isn't broken. Fixing the router only helps when we are at home. When outside Windows would still be phoning home. I assume that the benefits for implementing pfSense or Sophos are above and beyond just the use case described above. Just worried that I may not have the time to properly administer a more complex routing solution....

If by remotely, you mean outside your lan or on the other side of the world, I set up the OpenVPN server plugin and it gives me access to the local lan from anywhere I can get a stable internet connection. From there I just RDP into the local IP address of the VM you want to access. With my laptop I start the OpenVPN client and connect to the unRaid server with my cert. OpenVPN gives me a local ip address on the same lan unRaid is on. I then start up RDP and point it to the local IP of the VM. Your other methods of doing this are Teamviewer and Splashtop Desktop. Neither require the VPN, but they both have other identity creation requirements. See @gridrunner video on setting up a Win 10 vm for more details about Splashtop Desktop. My experience is more with Teamviewer and RDP.

Hey Richard, those of us who use unRaid for real work situations are in the minority. I haven't gotten much further with my unRaid -> WordPress project. It would seem that spinning up an unRaid docker with a fresh WP install should be the ultimate lab environment. Following your progress.....

@gridrunner in his latest excellent video for Windows 10 VM creation is recommending SpyBot Anti Beacon install as part of the Windows install process. I am presently running none of these tools, however a search of the internet shows that this is a controversial topic. I had turned off all the normal things that are recommended to stop Windows from phoning home. Who is running a Windows 10 blocking tool to keep it from phoning home to Microsoft?? These guys suggest not installing these types of tools https://www.howtogeek.com/273513/why-you-shouldnt-use-anti-spying-tools-for-windows-10/ Review Anti Beacon https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/ditching-anti-beacon-for-shutup10.386150/ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30534607-Anti-Beacon-worth-installing Not keeping up with the latest Windows changes https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/631658/spybot-anti-beacon-donotspy10-o-o-shutup10/ But this video suggests that I have still been sending a lot of stuff to MS even though I did turn everything off. Is Barnacles trustworthy, or someone with an attitude?

You suggest only setting up a small vdisk for the vm. Yet you choose 70gb. I normally set mine up as only 30gb, and I still have 18gb free after getting Win10 N Pro 1703 creators update all set up. Yes Creators Update 1703 N only uses 12gb after install. Why do you want so much free space? You are suggesting a different install process than what is in the wiki. Adding the other virt io drivers later is faster, and it works well.. Should we be modifying the wiki for your new faster install process?? This will be a great help for the new unRaiders who want to try a Win10VM. All that is left to do is create an automatic script that does this all for us without intervention......

Your old drives should be usable on any other computer that you can get unRaid to boot from. Just stick the old or newly configured flash drive in any computer and try to boot unRaid. (without moving the drives is the first and easiest test) Having an attached keyboard and monitor will simplify the testing. Even an old laptop may work to verify the USB flash drives. But it sounds like you may have a USB port failure?? (I expect that @garycase and @turl may have more ideas) You don't need to save up to get a V6 license, you already have one. (unless you are only using V5 without a license with less than 3 drives as that is no longer available)

Either a hardware failure on the motherboard USB port, or some kind of bios configuration is required. Will the usb port you are attempting to boot from, boot any other usb boot media? Check the bios in the motherboard to see if somehow the power blip caused the boot order, or the list of bootable devices to get changed. And once you get it back to working again, you will get much better help if you are on the latest unRaid. I stuck on V5 for a bit as V6 stabilized, but we are way past that time period with V6 now.

I guess maybe that I need to check out the local lan. Right now there are only about a dozen connections to this Netgear 6300v2 router with DD-WRT running Kongac V3-28600M. But I am in China, right now and who knows what could be crashing my lan trying to get in. I'm no net guru so appreciate the pointers. Wireshark coming down slowly over my VPN to USA.

Yes, a simple disconnect and reconnect fixes things about 50% of the time, but not always. It sounds like you have experience with RDP gumming up and going flaky??

Thanks @SFyffe Remote Desktop Connection Manager from MS ver 2.7 from 2014? MobaXterm looks like a much more complex solution than simply RDP. I did some more testing with the Win10 client first. To test I started to use the other unaffected laptop extensively with Win RDP and the same problems appeared. After about an hour of use the response was getting noticeably sluggish. This is with Chrome browsing, or even clicking the Win button bottom left, would result in 5 second delay to respond. So it appears I was wrong to declare this to be limited to one laptop. It is more widespread. I am using 1080p full screen most of the time. Both of these laptops are equipped with older i5 3337U processors and 8gb ram with Intel video. It doesn't seem to matter whether I am connecting via ip address or via machine name. It also doesn't seem to matter if the VM is on the local lan or connected via VPN half way around the world. I will try your suggestions next...

One thing I can say for sure, is this seems to get worse as time progresses. After several hours with a Win VM in an RDP window, it gets noticably bad. After 24 hours with a VM active, it is almost unusable. Completely restarting all the RDP client sessions seems to help a little. Anybody else noticing RDP response deteriorating over time?

I have one W10 laptop which I use for RDP into several unRaid W10 VM's and the response to the keyboard and mouse gets to be unusable. It can take 30 seconds for the VM to respond to a page down command in a browser. I have a twin of this W10 laptop that I also used RDP to come into the same unRaid W10 VM's and they work like normal with page downs in the same browser window happening within 1/2 second. So the issue is not unRaid or the VM, but the laptop that I am coming in with. Rebooting the laptop doesn't seem to help. Is it a known issue for the W10 RDP client to get gummed up like this? Is there a way to get the performance back to normal?

The Malwaretech guy found a kill switch that he activated by registering a domain. That is creative.

Media is going nuts with this, but real live cases with real live people are still scarce.... Unless you count FedEx, Deutsche Bahn, Britains Nation Health Service, numerous universities, and other businesses. Has the media got it wrong again??? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hospitals-across-england-report-it-failure-amid-suspected-major-cyber-attack/2017/05/12/84e3dc5e-3723-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/13/wannacry-ransomware-outbreak-stopped-by-researcher/#4a20182b74fc

Reporting back to say that this process is so stable, that I may get rid of most of the places where I use the official Limetech Bittorrent Sync. The only downside to this rsync process, is that it doesn't support 2 way sync.

Here is the other extreme. 4 large iso's going halfway around the world. Over 6mb/sec on a 100mbit line. There were times it was almost running at line speed. However at other times of the day, say evening in China, it is nowhere near so impressive. Number of files: 5 (reg: 4, dir: 1) Number of created files: 5 (reg: 4, dir: 1) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 4 Total file size: 16,443,052,032 bytes Total transferred file size: 16,443,052,032 bytes Literal data: 16,443,052,032 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 221 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 103 Total bytes received: 16,447,066,831 sent 103 bytes received 16,447,066,831 bytes 6,142,695.40 bytes/sec total size is 16,443,052,032 speedup is 1.00

I wonder if this flaw exists in the E5 2670 Xeon so many of us grabbed when they were cleared out of data centers. The fix is a firmware update. To the MB or the CPU?

Or another pure sine wave unit? The PSU in the p4000 chassis won't work with the APC units. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk

Is there a 220 v version of the AVR Cyberpowers? They work good with the Intel P4000 chassis with dual PSU. But I don't see a 220v 50hz version.

Bios resolution changing didn't help, but I then went and recreated some more VM's with Seabios and Q35 2.7 instead of OVMF and i440FX. I also tried different video drivers in the GUI setup but QXL ended up working best. Now I have all video resolutions available to me up to 2500 x 1600. Lesson, for TeamViewer or VNC remote access use Seabios Q35 instead of the defaults.

If MS Win RDP is active on the VM and Teamviewer is also active, both virtual desktops are at 1080p (1920x1080). Closing the RDP session immediately results in the Teamviewer session being kicked back to 800x600 resolution. If there is a Win RDP session active, starting an ultraVNC connection kills the RDP and drops the resolution to 800x600. Restarting the RDP session then kills the ultraVNC connection and pops the resolution back to 1080p. I will try and jump to Teamviewer 12 instead of 11 which I am presently running. However, it seems Win10 is causing the issue issue. Edit

I created a VM with no pass through only using VT-x on my Xeon-2670 on unRaid 6.3.3 and was surprised that Teamviewer behaves differently than MS Remote Desktop (RDP) for the video resolution. Teamviewer only will display the Win10 vm at 800x600 resolution, just like ultraVNC will. No additional resolutions are available to Teamviewer. MS RDP from a Win10 Home laptop with 1080p screen suddenly shows the Win10 VM at full 1920x1080. If the MS RDP session remains open and a TeamViewer session is initiated into the same VM, suddenly the Teamviewer can also display the Win10 VM at 1080p just like the MS RDP. Is this expected behavior? Is there any way for the Win10 VM to default to a higher resolution with Teamviewer? The same behavior is exhibited by Win10 1607 Anniv Update and Win10 1703 Creators Update. Win10 VM is not activated if that matters...

Here is the other extreme. 4 large iso's going halfway around the world. Over 6mb/sec on a 100mbit line. There were times it was almost running at line speed. However at other times of the day, say evening in China, it is nowhere near so impressive. Number of files: 5 (reg: 4, dir: 1) Number of created files: 5 (reg: 4, dir: 1) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 4 Total file size: 16,443,052,032 bytes Total transferred file size: 16,443,052,032 bytes Literal data: 16,443,052,032 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 221 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 103 Total bytes received: 16,447,066,831 sent 103 bytes received 16,447,066,831 bytes 6,142,695.40 bytes/sec total size is 16,443,052,032 speedup is 1.00