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On Jan 8, 2008 9:39 AM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Well, like I mentioned, a spike of a few seconds, or a couple of minutes > isn't that big a deal. I still would like to try to track down what is > happening at that time, for instance, is it happening at the same time every > day, such as coffee break time, when everyone wants to log into Youtube, or > CNN, and watch some streaming video? Or could it be some process that's > going haywire for some reason? If the spikes are affecting your network > adversely, such as getting reports that the network is slow everyday at > 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, then something is going on that needs to be addressed. > Personally, when our backups go off at night, our spikes are sometimes > upwards of 150% of our normal bandwidth. Luckily, our ISP, which is another > state agency, allows for that, and it's no big deal. If it's possible, try > to get daily reports from your ISP for a period of a week or two, and that > should help you to analyze possible trends… > > > > > Joe Heaton > > > > > > From: Chris Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:29 AM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Bandwidth > > > > > > > > It does, thanks for the reply. When you say 70%, should we not be spiking > that high during business hours? All of our activity is during the day, the > T1's are basically empty at night, maybe some Microsoft and Anti-virus > updates. During the day I have seen spikes as high as 2.9 out of 3.0. I am > going to talk to our ISP to get more detailed reports and get some averages > for data in/out during business hours. > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:20 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Bandwidth > > > > > > If the spikes are only a couple of minutes, and during off-peak hours, then > it shouldn't be a big concern. 70% is the rule of thumb, but that's really > meant as an overall figure, for instance, if you were at 2.5Mb out of 3.0Mb > all the time, then you would definitely need to look at either upgrading the > pipe, or figuring out if something is out of whack with your network, > causing the bandwidth usage. For instance, look for streaming audio/video, > possible spyware issues, etc. When I first got here, my supervisor was > certain we needed to up our bandwidth, based on a monthly report she was > getting from our ISP. What I did was request a more granular report, a > weekly, and saw that the spikes were happening in the middle of the night, > but during the day, we were well below 70% usage. We use an offsite backup > solution, and the spikes were the backups running each night. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > > Joe Heaton > > > > > > From: Chris Blair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:01 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Bandwidth > > > > > > We are suspecting we need to increase of our current bandwidth. We > are now accessing applications over a VPN tunnel and have added more users > over the past few months. Application and Internet usage can get slow during > the day. > > We subscribed to our ISP's bandwidth monitoring reports and I can now view > hourly, daily, weekly and monthly bar graphs of our usage. So now that I > have these reports, my problem is interpreting them. My Googling is failing > me this morning. How much usage is too much? If we are spiking up to 2.5m > out of 3.0m, is that OK? What is OK? > > > > We are running 2 T-1's that are bonded . Yesterday we Averaged > 123.4k in max 1.1m and 0.4m out max 1.8m. Is this good, bad? > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged and/or proprietary. If > you > are not the intended recipient, any review, disclosure, copying, or use of > this e-mail is prohibited. > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1213 - Release Date: 1/7/2008 > 9:14 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1213 - Release Date: 1/7/2008 > 9:14 AM > > This e-mail is confidential and may be privileged and/or proprietary. If > you > are not the intended recipient, any review, disclosure, copying, or use of > this e-mail is prohibited. > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1213 - Release Date: 1/7/2008 > 9:14 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1213 - Release Date: 1/7/2008 > 9:14 AM > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
