Slow Network

[Noise]

Hi

 

We have just moved into a new office and finding the network very slow.

 

Everything goes through a central patch rack and channels the network data and the internet - both of which are noticeably slower than the last office.

 

Does anyone have a method to quantify the flow of data and internet which I can compare with the last office and put to our current landlord ?

 

Thanks

 

N

[BrianKitts]

If you're looking to test the internet speed there are sites that can do this for you such as....

 

http://www.speedtest.net/

 

But that won't prove much to your landlord since it could be a problem with your ISP. You probably would want something that just tests the local network such as....

 

http://wareseeker.com/Network-Tools/network-speed-1.40.zip/335496

 

but the quickest way would be just to ping a few systems back and forth from a command propmt and see what you get.

[Noise]

Thanks for that Brian.

 

How does the pinging work ?

[ihabkal]

you open the dos prompt and type

ping 192.168.9.101

where 192.168.9.101 is the ip of each computer. (put your ip instead of my theoritical one)

it should respond in zero or near zero time.

now if your pcs are not sending and receiving files in a good way try using -t

ping 192.168.9.101 -t

it will keep sending connection requests and pingiong that system until you stop it. leave it for 15 minutes, if it drops the conneciton (timeout) even once, then you have a problem and your computers will take a loong time to send files or even hang the connection when sending. if that happens I will help you troubleshoot it.

1 gigabits lan connections are much better than 100Mbits ones so check your switch speed too. and your cabling, I don't use cat 5, cat 6e is my standard.