Dear priscilla Thanks for your reply :)
Well....the 10% packet loss happen at the peak time...and that can happen for a period of 3-4 hours No packet loss was observed during off peak hours. I rememeber reading something on a cisco article which states that WAN performance will worsen when it gets over 70 % utilised. As for my link it is around 96-98% utilised so i guess the cisco guideline is right ... ""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > birdy wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me why.... > > > > I have 2 Mbps WAN connection that reached 95 % utilisation > > during peak time. > > For how long was it at 95%? That would definitely worry me, unless it turned > out that "the peak" was just a few seconds or something. > > > When I try to ping to my provider serial interface(next hop),it > > register 10% > > packet loss > > > > My router serial interface is showing 1.9Mbps (incoming > > traffic). Since the > > router is receiving 1.9 Mbps out of the 2M pipe,which means > > that there is > > still a balance of 0.1 Mbps (100 k) and so therotically > > speaking, there > > should not be any packet loss. > > Pings may not be a good way to measure packet loss because the provider may > rate limit its responses to pings. But even if that's not the case, there > could be packet loss when the average utilization was 95%. Over how much > time was the average calculated? There could have been times when the > utilization was 50% and there could have been times (like right when you > were sending the pings) when the utilization was 100% and packets had to get > dropped. That could still work out to an average of 95%. > > > > > I think is time for me to upgrade my bandwidth.... > > That could be true, but you may want to do a more detailed study over a > longer timeframe, (unless users are already making a stink). > > Good luck. > > Priscilla Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=49078&t=49002 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
