Monitor Slow Network

[ITGL72]

I'm working on trying to sniff out a problem in my office LAN. Its about 50 clients and 8 servers. We have a portion of our LAN that has a few PC's that experience SLOW data transfer and loss of data at times. We have that section get branched by a linksys 16port switch and a patch panel and the wires disappear into the ceiling.

I am using the demo from networkinstruments.com called link analyst (also tried observer but it only works for a minute in demo mode) that polls all the machines on the network and gives back response times. Nifty tool, I believe it has given me at least a starting point on where to look. I'm not very experienced in the actual physical layout of network administration at this point and would love some recommendations on how to proceed.

I am assuming that it could be a bad wire, port on a switch, maybe even a bad NIC somewhere but I'm just not sure yet as to where to look and what to change to try and rectify this one.

Also, if anyone has any other recommendations for software I can download from the web that would be great.

Your help is appreciated!

 

[quaka]

Hi

Sounds like your on the right track. i had much the same proble on my NT4 network. try this for size

http://ns2.ndgsoftware.com/

it gives a graphical display and alarm worning for set IP's & or Mac.

Good Luck

Stuart

 

[ITGL72]

quaka, just wondering if you gave me the correct URL? Its been over 24hrs of trying and I can't get to it. "The page cannot be displayed"