Network Performance degradation

[Steve Bragg]

I have a Windows network with 15 users running on a Domain using SBS2003.

The network gradually slows down during the day and users sometime have
issues of waiting up to 1-2 mins to collect and open a file from the server.

The server itself is setup to do all it¹s AV scans, updates, backup¹s and so
on at night instead of the day.

All machines are XP pro and good spec (min 500mB ram¹s and good processors)
and the server is a 3.5GHz machine with 500mB ram too. It has not yet been
upgraded to SP1 for Servers.

Anyone any idea why the network speed starts dropping during the day??

Cheers


Steve B

 

[Chuck]

I have a Windows network with 15 users running on a Domain using SBS2003.

The network gradually slows down during the day and users sometime have
issues of waiting up to 1-2 mins to collect and open a file from the server.

The server itself is setup to do all it¹s AV scans, updates, backup¹s and so
on at night instead of the day.

All machines are XP pro and good spec (min 500mB ram¹s and good processors)
and the server is a 3.5GHz machine with 500mB ram too. It has not yet been
upgraded to SP1 for Servers.

Anyone any idea why the network speed starts dropping during the day??

Cheers


Steve B

Steve,

Do you have any idea what's the bottleneck, when the slowdown is in effect?
Anything going on, in particular, on any one of the clients? What network
hardware do you have?
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Maybe install Process Explorer (free Microsoft tool) on the clients and server,
and set it running on each simultaneously.
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