On 05/06/2015 10:05 AM, Rod Roark wrote: > Here's a puzzle for you experienced network administrators. > > 1. They only happen during the day when lots of staff or visitors are > around. The exception is shortly before midnight every night, which I > figure is by design. > > 2. They occur at random times, about 6 times per day. Thus clearly not > an intentional timeout.
My guess is the connection state table is getting full. Sadly in the race to the bottom often corners are cut on ram, and it's been getting worse with changes in user activity. More network aware apps like skype, hangouts, etc. Checking in for virus rules, patches/updates, more tabs open, live web pages that check in for updates, etc. etc. So for a given number of clients you need a larger connection table than you needed years ago. Not to mention smart phones, tablets, even smart watches are more common, so the number of clients per person has been increasing as well. My guess is they have either a more heavily used router, or one with less ram and you pinned your connection to the better router and no longer have as many problems. > (b) Access point malfunction under heavy use. Very common, normally I buy the access point/router with double the ram for another $10. Seems to make a huge difference in reliability. Despite heavy use my current wifi router has been up 57 days, typically it's up till the next power outage. Despite heavy use by tablets, 2 desktops, 3 phones, etc. We hit the network pretty hard around here with plenty of video conferences, minecraft, roku, netflix, amazon prime, etc. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
