Really slow processing

[Mike Schwartz]

> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+mschw=athenet.net at lists.celestial.com] On
> Behalf Of Richard Kreiss
> 
> Bob,
> 
> If you have new hardware, it most likely came with gigabit nics. It seems
a
> shame not to upgrade the switch to gigabit also.

     Don't be too quick to stick in a Gigabyte switch without testing their
network cabling.  I recently had a customer who tried to stick new computers
and  Gigabyte switches into a factory that had been poorly wired with cat-5
cabling back in the 10 MBPS days.  Nothing seemed to be working correctly,
especially when the end users were loading huge engineering drawings and
doing filePro (telnet) stuff over their network.  

     I diagnosed the problem immediately when I saw the last 20 or 30 feet
of cat-5 cables tightly coiled up and bound with nylon ties.  I also saw
long, perfectly straight runs of cable neatly bound to 200+ foot long
straight pipes and girders leading to other switches in the back of their
plants.  I had to explain to them that the long straight runs of cable were
probably picking up every radio and tv station in the world...   

     I couldn't imagine that the people from one of the largest
business-oriented computer place in Green Bay would have come in and
installed the new gigabyte switches without even noticing the old, bad
cabling...

Mike Schwartz