Last guy out the door at 5PM, starts up his torrent client? :) On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Murray Freeman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our backups start at 8:30PM. We do very few blast email internally. > There might be some anti virus updates and I'm checking those out. > > > Murray > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:12 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: NETWORK RUNS SLOW AFTER 5PM > > Backups on your file or email servers? > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 15:01, Murray Freeman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We have an AWS (alternate work schedule) whereby if you choose you can > > > work longer days such that you get a Friday off every other week. So, > > while our regular working hours are 8:30AM to 5:00PM, there are always > > > a small number of people left in the building and thus the network > > after 5PM. Of these people, a couple have complained that after 5PM > > thenetwork really slows down, or at least they have delays printing > > and opening documents. One individual has told me that precisely at > > 5:17PM each evening, her workstation virtually comes to a standstill > > for about 20 minutes, and then goes back to normal. I've checked the > > event logs on the servers, and snothing special is going on. I'm going > > > to hang around this evening and take a look at the task manager on the > > > one workstation to see if I can see if any process isusing up all the > > CPU resources. I'll check the event logs on the workstation as well. > > We're running Win XP and Windows Server 2003. I have suspicians about > > something "sinister" like someone using our machines as bots, but it's > > > more than likely an internal issue. Any thouhgts would be appreciated. > > > > > > Murray > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
