On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey >> >> Also - This seems obvious, I don't know why I didn't mention it before - >> >> The problem might be sporadic. You say you measure 20-30ms roundtrip >> ping >> response, but do you do that *all* day long? Do you do that at the same >> exact moment that people demonstrate the slowness happening? > > Actually - Also - > Are you pinging the same machine they're trying to connect to? Maybe you're > getting good responses from machine A, while the network bottleneck is more > localized, affecting the machine they're tyring to use, Machine B... > The user complaints are about all websites being slow, and RDP being slow and X-windows editing being slow. I can confirm the first of these from my desktop visiting many sites, including gmail. I think in the end the conclusion has to be that good ping results are not a guarantee of good GUI response, although my ssh to the command line still seems fine, the GUI functions are just a lot more sensitive. dan feenberg nber _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
