dealing with slowness

[736xl]

Everything seems to super slow. Logging on takes 2-4 minutes. Accessing files are ok but what concerns me is when connected through vpn just the get a folder list takes a long time. I've checked the DNS. I don't have any errors on and seems to work good. Server is clean with enough space. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jo

 

[technome]

Could be one of few few dozen issues...
For a starter, Pathping a remote, if your MTU is incorrect, routers along the way could be dropping packets, adjust the MTU if more than a small percentage of packets are lost. Works the same from the remotes, have them Pathping your site, their MTU could be off, and that is for EACH remote.

VPN is rather disappointing anyway, you should look into setting up Terminal services..I have Terminal servers which give users faster speed on all the programs involved, than the workstations on the internal LAN can.


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[736xl]

technome,

thanks for your info. I would love to setup terminal services. But I though 2003 only provides 2 connection. I wouldn't go to Citrix route. Too expensive but interested in terminal services. Can you give me some more info?

Thanks

 

[pgaliardo]

Terminal Services only provides 2 connections out of the box (Remote Administration mode). If you purchase the necessary licenses, you can run as many connections as you like. You can do it without Citrix.

 

[pgaliardo]

Back to your original question, as technome pointed out, it could be several issues. The worst thing I want to hear from someone is that the "system is slow". It's so hard to troubleshoot. Check you switches, routers, cabling, servers and, always a big culprit, anti-virus.

 

[736xl]

Thanks to everyone. I've upgraded almost the entire network to cisco 2950 switches, cisco 851 router, did a netflow check on traffic, looked everywhere on the server side. Came to find out, it was steering at me the entire time, dumb ass, DNS. Failed to configure the router to point to server DNS. Everything is flying now.


Again many thanks to thanks to everyone.