From: groupstudy email (groupstudy@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2008 - 11:15:43 ART
Actually, I misspoke. The users are all thin clients. They are using
citrix.
Thanks
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Joseph Brunner <joe@affirmedsystems.com>wrote:
> >Users in site B keep experiencing slowness and loss of connectivity to all
> >services,(email, network drives, surfing).
>
> Let me get this straight...
>
> You are mapping users to "shared drives" over a 768k line, and
>
> YOU ARE WONDERING WHY ITS SLOW???
>
> it would be slow over a T-1!!!!
>
> First, get more bandwidth... cifs & netbios are VERY CHATTY protocols...
>
> more chatty than your girlfriend telling you about her day at work...
>
> They need lots of bandwidth and or a Riverbed appliance to work well on
> slow
> speed wans (i.e. slow speed under 10Mbps), and even then they are not
> perfect. On 768K they would be absolutely Les Miserable...
>
> I ran a 50+ site wan with slow speed links using all these services, email,
> fs, etc...
>
> >Two pings work, three don't, two don't, three do.
> > This is true for any windows server in the network.
>
> Perhaps complete saturation of the line... do your users run limewire, etc.
> and download and share mp3's? Time to break out wireshark... here we go
>
> Once we do that, lets look at the setup of this vpn to make sure its good.
> Post your configs (hub and site b router) for us. We'll look at.
> -Joe
>
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> Subject: Very Strange Issue
>
> Hello All,
> I have a VPN tunnel between two cisco routers (site A hub side, site B
> remote side). The remote side is a 768K DSL line.
>
> Users in site B keep experiencing slowness and loss of connectivity to all
> services,(email, network drives, surfing). While troubleshooting, we issue
> pings from their machines to the various servers in remote networks. Ping
> results are inconsistent. Two pings work, three don't, two don't, three
> do.
> This is true for any windows server in the network.
>
> Pings to any Cisco device from the same user machine work completely. No
> packet loss at all.
>
> I have never seen this before. Any idea why this happens?
>
> I have remote connectivity to all devices at site B, it's just slow.
>
> Thanks!
>
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