Detecting network trouble?

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I have a WinXP Pro machine that uses an in house developed application
to connect with an in house SQL Server. The app runs extremely slow on
my machine. I can't figure out if it is the network connection or slow
processing by the machine. Is there a tool that will allow me to view
bits/sec(?) to the specific SQL Server from my machine? Or is there a
better way to do that?

The machine has a 2.0Ghz Xeon, 1G RAM, 80GB 7200 STA HD.

Thanks,
Brett
 
A network sniffer prgm or device is the best way but is your app loaded on
the machine in question or run via the net to the server? If you load the app
and all the DLLs required on the machine, it won't have to use cache, net
resources etc by running local vs tasking the server which maybe busy doing
other things :-)

Then again ou can always check your network traffic by viewing the router
status and/ or the performance monitoring in advanced XP settings..
 
I'm not so good with XP's performance monitor. However, most minotors
group all network activity together. You just see an aggregate, which
is not what I want. I'd like to see traffic to/from that specific SQL
Server. I think something is wrong with my specific connection to that
server.

There are two other people running the same program. There program
will completely load in about 1 minute (in debug mode) where as mine
takes 3 minutes. I just can't find the issue.

The EXE and all related DLLs load from the user machine. The database
is all that is accessed remotely.

Brett
 
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