Are there any sites that have good performance, and can you identify whether the hardware at those sites is the same? I think someone else alluded to differences in hardware at your various sites could be a problem. I'd start looking in that direction.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Tom Miller <tmil...@hnncsb.org> wrote: > Back to my original question, speed tests tell me I am only getting minimum > bandwidth at all sites - not cool. So this might be part of the issue I am > having with my ME. This might be part of the issue. > > >>> Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com> 1/5/2011 2:46 PM >>> > > Yes, but is that spelled out in an SLA... > And even then, what happens when they oops? > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Tom Miller <tmil...@hnncsb.org> wrote: > >> The ISP tells me that only we can see our data on Metro E. >> Thanks, I can spell HIPAA too. We live it here in health care. >> >> >>> "Raper, Jonathan - Eagle" <jra...@eaglemds.com> 1/5/2011 2:42 PM >>> >> >> Delineation of public/non-controlled network to private/controlled >> network, would be my reasoning. >> >> Also, he is talking about an INTERNET connection. Why would you not >> firewall your ISP connection??? >> >> We run Cisco VPN across all of our (non-internet) Metro-E links, just to >> be able to say that we know our data is secure. HIPAA anyone? >> >> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE >> Technology Coordinator >> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA* >> *jra...@eaglemds.com* >> *www.eaglemds.com >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 05, 2011 2:37 PM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* RE: Metro Ethernet ? >> >> Firewall? Why are you routing that through a firewall? Our setup is >> our ISP's equipment is connected directly to a second core switch for Metro >> E. >> >> >>> "Paul Everett" <evere...@leementalhealth.org> 1/5/2011 2:16 PM >>> >> >> We recently went from a T1 Internet connection to 10meg Metro-E and we >> tested 10 megs to our ISP, but only 5 to Miami, 3 to Atlanta, and only 1meg >> to the West Coast. >> >> Our problem was our Firewall couldn’t handle the throughput. >> >> Paul >> >> *From:* Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 05, 2011 11:37 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* RE: Metro Ethernet ? >> >> *Something is dirty somewhere. Could be a misconfigured port along the >> way, could be bad cabling, etc…* >> >> ** >> >> *Thanks,* >> >> *Brian Desmond* >> >> *br...@briandesmond.com* >> >> ** >> >> *c – 312.731.3132* >> >> ** >> >> *From:* Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:21 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Metro Ethernet ? >> >> Folks, >> >> I am converting our network from point to point to MVLS/Metro Ethernet. >> >> What I am noticing at some sites is that performance is worse that with >> the point to point circuit. Ping times greatly increased, collisions, etc. >> I've been working with my provider to get this resolved. First they thought >> it was a speed mismatch issue, so the provider's equipment and my equipment >> were changed to the same setting (full 100). That's not working and now >> we'll probably change it to full 10 (since the allocation is 5 Mbps anyway). >> I can also do some rate shaping on my switches, but it's a PITA and I was >> hoping to avoid it. >> >> Anyone else have these issues with conversion? Some sites are fine, >> others are not. All have same switches, model, firmware, config for trunk >> ports. >> >> I haven't pulled out my bag o software to look at what's on the pipe, >> anyone have any that would be best for this scenario? I have Praesser but I >> really need a site to site test/analysis tool. I just downloaded Qcheck and >> will see if that does it. 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