Jonathan, I am switching over from our 10mb to 100mb qmoe starting with my signoff next week. They are (Qwest) still trying to get the circuit to verify at 100Mb. It currently to them shows 82. How can I can test this with just a pc on my end? I went to qwest.speedtest.net and it isn't anywhere near even the 82 they report. How do I the customer validate the speed I am paying for?
dave From: Raper, Jonathan - Eagle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Metro Ethernet ? We switched to Metro-E over fiber about 6 years ago, and haven't looked back, though it isn't MPLS. We just have a Point to Multi-point layer 2 network, with them breaking out switch ports at my core for each remote site. So for all intents and purposes, from my standpoint, it is a handful of point to point layer 2 connections. One thing I had to beat into my providers' head was verifying the speed and duplex of their equipment. For some, we needed 100 full, and for others, we needed 10 full. It all depended on what gear we had at each site. Even once the setting was changed, sometimes it would take an equipment reboot (theirs AND ours) in order for it to settle properly. You should not have to dumb down the connection speed to 10 mbps, as they are rate limiting on their equipment down to 5 Mbps (just like what we have). What is your terminating equipment, and are you seeing interface errors? (I know you said collisions, but what exactly are your interfaces saying?) Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected] <BLOCKED::mailto:%[email protected]> www.eaglemds.com <BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/> ________________________________ From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Metro Ethernet ? Folks, I am converting our network from point to point to MVLS/Metro Ethernet. What I am noticing at some sites is that performance is worse that with the point to point circuit. Ping times greatly increased, collisions, etc. I've been working with my provider to get this resolved. First they thought it was a speed mismatch issue, so the provider's equipment and my equipment were changed to the same setting (full 100). 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