Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-17 Thread Jeff Bunting
Have you looked at the NIC offload settings? I recently had a similar problem on my home machine. I was getting a lot of intermittent DNS failures though TCP connectivity (once established) seemed OK. I had switched among the ISP DNS, Google DNS, and OpenDNS without any better results, so

Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-17 Thread Kurt Buff
I don't think TCP offload is an issue here. I finally found some time, and am doing something I've not done before. I put wireshark on a spare XP machine, and turned on tcpdump for each NIC on our firewall, and fired up a web page that I thought would be slow - www.bostonglobe.com - because

Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-12 Thread Kurt Buff
Pardon the lateness of this reply (I've been out of town for a couple of days), but no, the lack of consistency leaves me with questions, not answers - because I have only one instance of inside being slower than outside. Let me be a bit more specific: Date Machine Elapsed 2011-05-03

Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Doesn't the fact that there is no consistency in the data from systems placed at different points in your network *helpful* to determining where there is a potential slowdown? Users complain about slow performance, and your logging shows that speeds outside are faster than those inside. This

RE: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread Ziots, Edward
-3505 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 6:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem Doesn't the fact that there is no consistency in the data from systems placed at different

Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread Steven Peck
:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, June 09, 2011 6:25 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem Doesn't the fact that there is no consistency in the data from systems placed at different points

RE: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread Guyer, Don
-0404 www.fiserv.com http://www.fiserv.com/ From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 10:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem We had ittermittant slowness during one period. Then we

RE: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread David Lum
How the hell did you figure that one out? Dave From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 7:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem We had ittermittant slowness during one period. Then we

RE: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread Guyer, Don
on troubleshooting web browsing problem How the hell did you figure that one out? Dave From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 7:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem We had ittermittant

RE: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread N Parr
What model and how old is your BC Web filter? -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem All, I'm in need of a new approach

Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread Steven Peck
: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem How the hell did you figure that one out? Dave *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, June 09, 2011 7:39 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web

Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread Andrew S. Baker
] *Sent:* Thursday, June 09, 2011 10:39 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem We had ittermittant slowness during one period. Then we discovered a dev who would at random times during the day copy 800GB-1.5TB files across

Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-09 Thread Steven Peck
* don.gu...@fiserv.com Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, June 09, 2011 10:39 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem We

OTish: Need some ideas on troubleshooting web browsing problem

2011-06-08 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I'm in need of a new approach to troubleshooting staff complaints about intermittent slowness of web browsing. We have about 200 staff members on site, the symptoms are intermittent at best, but include some generalized slowness in page loads, and occasional complete page misses - that is,