MPLS connectivity question
One site of our MPLS connections is down. When I do a traceroute to that site. I can see the packets bouncing back and forth between our router and the service provider’s router. I haven’t been able to contact the IT guys in the other site, so I’m trying to figure out what’s happening from [...]

Answer Question   |  April 10, 2009  7:27 AM
BGP, Border Gateway Protocol, MPLS, MPLS VPN, Multiprotocol Label Switching, Network connectivity, Network performance, Traceroute

What uses the most bandwidth
Digital voice,Document Imaging,Compressed Video or full-motion Video.Can anyone help me with this answer/Please.

Answer Question   |  April 6, 2009  8:34 PM
Bandwidth, Bandwidth management, Network performance

Network logon problem
Created new domin and created users but userr logs on to domin it takes long time

Answer Question   |  March 23, 2009  7:59 AM
logon problem, Network latency, Network performance, Slow login to domain

Will having a router between each switch improve performance?
Will having a router between each switch improve performance on a network?

Answer Question   |  March 13, 2009  2:26 AM
Network design, Network performance, Routers, Switches

how to measure network speed on wan
how to monitor the network speed on wan accurately. i did a tacert and path ping n i just got 2 hops staistics and trace was complete without any error , however the time it took was 318 ms average , i tried the trace from both the sides(ends) of the WAN i got the [...]

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2009  3:11 PM
Network performance, Network performance monitoring, WAN

Network
I’m not really sure but I believe that this is a netwoprk issue, we have been experincing that some of our PC’s either take to long to logon to windows domain, also some of the applications take to long to open (three min or more) e.g. Lotus Notes, iSeries emulator, IE, and, some times if [...]

Answer Question   |  January 29, 2009  4:16 PM
Network monitoring, Network performance, Network performance monitoring, Network testing

What to do about cabling long distances and signal strength fading?
I made a connection using Cat 6 SYSTIMAX cable from the server switch to the next repeater, which is 85 meters – and then to the next point it is 50 meters and then 50, then 50. The problem is the signal strength is not that strong and its on and off. What do you [...]

Answer Question   |  December 13, 2008  7:52 PM
Cabling, CAT 6, Network cabling, Network design, Network performance, Signal strength

my system is hanging after clicking my internet client…
with in 2-3min the system is hanging. i did low level format and tried to connect but the problem is same. i changed the ram…operating system(almost everything).MY ISP is a MNC(they are saying that we use high end routers and firewalls to protect from virus, we are giving assurence that there is no virus from [...]

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2008  2:56 PM
ISP, Network performance, System performance

Slow login to domain.
Hello. I am experiencing slow login of users to domain. There are around 100users and the PDC is Windows 2003. I can not also access the shared folders in the file server which is a Secondary domain controller also. Does anybody have any ideas. Best, dbrakaj

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2008  5:47 PM
Network performance, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Performance

Segmenting question
How to segment a specific group on a network to have its own bandwidth without tremendously slowing down the rest of the network?

Answer Question   |  October 31, 2008  1:00 PM
Bandwidth management, Network performance, Network Segmenting, Network Topology, Networking

Why would my L3 switch drop 20-80% of my pings?
Hi all, We are moving from a Linux based router to a L3 switch, Dell 6224. I’ve never configured a router before but I have experience with the Linux firewall, DHCP, DNS, etc. configuration so I was picked to configure the new router/ switch. We have 8+ subnets (labs) in the current configuration and the [...]

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2008  8:35 PM
Dell 6224, Layer 3 switches, Linux, Network connectivity, Network performance, Ping, Routers, Subnets, Switches, VLAN

Troubleshooting network connectivity
Which utility is used to troubleshoot network connectivity

Answer Question   |  September 25, 2008  1:29 PM
Network connectivity, Network performance, Network troubleshooting

Network speed slow down over distance and time – Upgrades needed? (REVISED)
I apologize for the double post, but I didn’t do my tags right. ————————— Hello all, I am a relatively new IT staff member of a few months. My title is Tech Support Specialist, but the business has only one IT staff member on this site (engineer/maintenance turned IT) and he pretty much does anything [...]

Answer Question   |  September 30, 2008  12:35 PM
Bandwidth, Domain Controller, Network performance, Throughput

Measuring network utilization & analysis
How do you report on network utilization for your WAN? Check out my blog and give me some feedback. Crunching Numbers – is this any way to manage a network?

Answer Question   |  September 20, 2008  1:20 PM
Monitoring, Network performance, Network performance monitoring, Performance metrics, WAN

Bandwidth Test
We do have a lots of Bandwidth testing sites like http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ where we calculate the download and upload speed. I want to know what is downloaded to our system and what is uploaded to the server and how are the Bandwidth calculated. what needs to be the prerequisite at the time of choosing a server? [...]

Answer Question   |  September 24, 2008  5:00 AM
Bandwidth, Bandwidth testing, Network performance

Noisy Network Line
We have a workstation in our organization that is experiencing very slow network connection. The connection is standard and resembles every other in the vicinity (it’s wire goes straight to the closet). The port on the switch does not appear to be a problem and the hardware on the workstation also appears to be completely [...]

Answer Question   |  October 2, 2008  6:54 PM
Network performance, Port

Regarding the network connectivity
What speed will be good for a network connectivity. Is 2Mbps suficient for a single user in State Wide Area Network.

Answer Question   |  September 9, 2008  8:09 AM
Network connectivity, Network performance

Removing The Network Collision
Hello, Sir/Madam I have a problem with my network. my computers are connected with hubs but the hub is collied every time. so I just restart the hub. but the same problem happens. plz tell me the perfect Sollution.

Answer Question   |  February 10, 2011  5:38 AM
Hubs, Network collision, Network performance

strange routing problem
I am having trouble getting from 72.42.222.4 (Indiana) to 67.159.44.24 (not sure where). I am getting stuck after I hit COMCAST-IP.edge1.Chicago2.Level3.net [4.71.248.22] according to a tracert. 67.159.44.24 is a hosting company that I use. I have contacted their support and they are not blocking me in any way. I have contacted my ISP (NDWave) and [...]

Answer Question   |  August 22, 2008  4:21 PM
IP blocking, Network performance, Routers, Traceroute, Tracert

What’s the effect of multipath propagation on the performance of a WLAN?
What’s the effect of multi-path propagation on the performance of a WLAN? Thank you.

Answer Question   |  August 4, 2008  5:50 PM
Multipath propagation, Network performance, Networking Channel, WLAN