[BBLISA] slow wan link

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Rob Taylor wrote:

> Hi Daniel.
>
> When you say WAN link,  are you referring to a network link between two
> offices at your company, or do you mean your Internet connection?
> Also, what speed is this link? When you say WAN, I think T1, T3, etc...

It is a symmetric fiber link to the Internet at 10mbs.

> Can you monitor your gear with SNMP or command line to see what
> performance stats on the gear are? Can you throw in a linux box running
> ntop to see the traffic coming and going? Can you do ttcp test just
> over the link itself?
>

Can you give a URL or details about ttcp? Googling "ttcp" doesn't help me 
much!

> Some network gear can queue smaller "interactive" packets ahead of
> larger bulk transfer packets, to give better response to some
> applications in heavily loaded situations.
>

It is x-windows (over ssh) and http that generate the user complaints, but
the heaviest load is from long file transfers (gigabytes).

dan feenberg
nber