In message <[email protected]>, Daniel Feenberg writes: >We have maxed out our WAN link, and users are complaining of slow access >to websites and x-windows interaction. Yet when I ping sites on the >internet I see no lost packets, and ping times for relatively close hosts >are consistently 20 - 30 milliseconds. Large packets are about the same. >Ping times to our ISP's router at their POP are 2-4 milliseconds. I see no >dropped pings to real hosts. Sometimes the ISP router drops a ping but I >understand that may be due to ICMP limiting. > >I have difficulty reconciling these facts. If pings are fast and packets >are not dropped, why do users see problems? I can confirm things seem >slow. Is this the dreaded "buffer bloat" problem so recently hyped? Is >there anything I can do here to aleviate it while waiting for more >bandwidth?
One thing you may want to try is run: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html it returns a lot of info about your network connectivity, buffer delays etc that may point at an issues as well. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard =========================================================================== My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
