Really slow processing

[Richard Kreiss]

Mike ,

You are correct about the cabling. My client rewired his warehouse with cat6 and installed a new patch panel. 

The switch problem was when a bad switch was installed in an "upstairs" office that has 3 computers. Once this switch was replaced be a 4 port switch the speed problem disappeared. 

Richard
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On Aug 27, 2011, at 11:45 AM, "Mike Schwartz" <mschw at athenet.net> wrote:

>> [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 
> 
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