Greetings,
I have a network setup that is experiencing very poor performance.
We decided to remove a couple 10/100 dell switches and replace them with TP-Link 100/1000 switches hoping for an improvement.
Our typical transfer speeds are still only between 2mbps to 12mbps even on the GB hardware.
I have many different types of machines (Dual Core desktops, older servers like XEON 3.0 GHZ with DDR2, newer Core-i7 notebooks etc), with many different OS running from Server 2003 to Win8 to Server 2012 to XP.
Network performance is very poor on all machines. They all have Cat5e wiring.
All of my machines hooked up to GB hardware are displaying the proper "Connected at 1gbps" in windows. When I ping machines I am not dropping packets.
Currently we have a wireless connection to our internet service provider (10mbpsdown,10mbpsup).
Their wireless device is attached to a 100MBPS Micro-Tik Routerboard 750GL that I do not have access to (password protected).
This feeds internet to our 100 MBPS Cisco ASA - 5505 router which I use for handling out of office users via Cisco's provided VPN client.
We are also running a FTP and IIS webserver which the Cisco router is directing traffic to.
We do not get that much traffic from the outside and our internet speed is decent as long as we do not have more than 1 GoToMeeting running at a time.
Its really just the internal network speeds that really seem to have poor performance. Even with machines on the same 1GBPS switch (not making a hop) I am getting very poor performance.
Our machines are all joined to a SBS 2003 domain.
The Cisco ASA is the gateway where everything is pointing to.
DNS/DHCP/WINs/AD/Exchange are all handled by the SBS 2003 box.
What kind of network file transfer speeds should I be expecting in a real world environment like this with GB switches?
We were hoping for 20+ mbps as we do have several machines with decent hardware, but it seems like something is slowing down our entire network.
Could the 100MBPS connections from the internet router and Cisco router somehow be imposing a speed limit on the rest of the network? :confused:
Any ideas on how to improve performance would be greatly appreciated.
Please see attached basic network diagram.
Thanks
I have a network setup that is experiencing very poor performance.
We decided to remove a couple 10/100 dell switches and replace them with TP-Link 100/1000 switches hoping for an improvement.
Our typical transfer speeds are still only between 2mbps to 12mbps even on the GB hardware.
I have many different types of machines (Dual Core desktops, older servers like XEON 3.0 GHZ with DDR2, newer Core-i7 notebooks etc), with many different OS running from Server 2003 to Win8 to Server 2012 to XP.
Network performance is very poor on all machines. They all have Cat5e wiring.
All of my machines hooked up to GB hardware are displaying the proper "Connected at 1gbps" in windows. When I ping machines I am not dropping packets.
Currently we have a wireless connection to our internet service provider (10mbpsdown,10mbpsup).
Their wireless device is attached to a 100MBPS Micro-Tik Routerboard 750GL that I do not have access to (password protected).
This feeds internet to our 100 MBPS Cisco ASA - 5505 router which I use for handling out of office users via Cisco's provided VPN client.
We are also running a FTP and IIS webserver which the Cisco router is directing traffic to.
We do not get that much traffic from the outside and our internet speed is decent as long as we do not have more than 1 GoToMeeting running at a time.
Its really just the internal network speeds that really seem to have poor performance. Even with machines on the same 1GBPS switch (not making a hop) I am getting very poor performance.
Our machines are all joined to a SBS 2003 domain.
The Cisco ASA is the gateway where everything is pointing to.
DNS/DHCP/WINs/AD/Exchange are all handled by the SBS 2003 box.
What kind of network file transfer speeds should I be expecting in a real world environment like this with GB switches?
We were hoping for 20+ mbps as we do have several machines with decent hardware, but it seems like something is slowing down our entire network.
Could the 100MBPS connections from the internet router and Cisco router somehow be imposing a speed limit on the rest of the network? :confused:
Any ideas on how to improve performance would be greatly appreciated.
Please see attached basic network diagram.
Thanks