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? Thanks Daniel Feenberg NBER _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
