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Hom3r
10-03-2009, 21:44
Does anybody else here have a dire network at work?

Yesterday I tried to upload to the network some 4GB of data from a DVD to our server in Windsor (I’m based in Stansted) This would take 3 to 4 hours. So I gave up and scheduled this to run after work, I copied the DVD and verified this in less than 15 minutes.

What gets on my goat is that all my data is on the network and I have days where I want to throw my computer out of the dam window, and we just have to raise stupid helpdesk forms.

This morning I tried to delete data from the network that I needed to replace from the network, this took nearly 2 hours to complete, copying 750MB’s worth of data took over 5 hours.

Apparently this data has to go via Northampton to get to Windsor.

I cannot go via works citrix as this data was downloaded from the web and IT block it from seeing the C: drive
AbyssUnderground
10-03-2009, 22:28
Sounds like you're on high speed broadband connections to the other locations only, not direct peering links via fibre/ethernet etc. Its bound to be slow if thats the case!
Hom3r
10-03-2009, 22:34
Its on a 6Meg connection, this does everything, from network to internet fo 60+ PCs
AbyssUnderground
10-03-2009, 22:41
Its on a 6Meg connection, this does everything, from network to internet fo 60+ PCs

Yes but the upload won't be 6Mbps will it. More likely to be 448-768Kbps maximum. Not fast at all.
Jon T
10-03-2009, 22:56
Our internet connection is only a 2Meg SDSL line and it serves 800 pc's and 46 servers, the difference is that we have 100Meg lan extensions to our remotes sites(apart from one on a 10Meg lan extension).
Paul K
11-03-2009, 06:11
Ours is a bit like that, we shunt a lot of data in and out of our network to remote sites and it can lag a bit now and then but our biggest gripe is our email provider being so unreliable at times. Yesterday was the first day in a long time we didn't lose connection to our mail servers. One day our boss will let us bring email in house lol.
Graham M
11-03-2009, 07:49
Yes but the upload won't be 6Mbps will it. More likely to be 448-768Kbps maximum. Not fast at all.

I find that highly unlikely given that he uploaded the DVD after work in 15 minutes
southwell
11-03-2009, 07:55
Blimey, im in a school serving 500+ machines and even we have 100mb up and down. :D
Jon T
11-03-2009, 08:43
Blimey, im in a school serving 500+ machines and even we have 100mb up and down. :D

That'll be a link into Janet/Superjanet then?
southwell
11-03-2009, 08:47
That'll be a link into Janet/Superjanet then?
No idea, probably, it's a county network, i only look after the school network. All i know is it costs an absolute fortune. :shocked:
papa smurf
11-03-2009, 19:09
ours is dire woeful and bordering on crap -not bad for the uk's leading broadband provider but what the heck who's in a hurry ;)
Nidge
11-03-2009, 19:21
Blimey, im in a school serving 500+ machines and even we have 100mb up and down. :D

Becky Taylor is running your network.
LSainsbury
11-03-2009, 19:27
No idea, probably, it's a county network, i only look after the school network. All i know is it costs an absolute fortune. :shocked:

Hey Southwell - I see you are in Basingstoke - what school is it?
MickW
11-03-2009, 23:11
You could send the IT manager at your place a link to Riverbed's website. The last place I worked at had Riverbed Steelhead web accelerators at each of the sites and we had the equivalent of a 100Mb connection during file transfers, very handy if you're using full DFS replication across sites.
Hugh
12-03-2009, 12:11
Nah - we have multiple 1GB links to Janet, and diverse 1GB between sites, and the smaller sites have 100MB LES circuits - I have happy customers..... ;)
Stuart
12-03-2009, 12:55
Nah - we have multiple 1GB links to Janet, and diverse 1GB between sites, and the smaller sites have 100MB LES circuits - I have happy customers..... ;)

Not sure of the specifics, but we have similarly fast links here..