Re: DSL Speed behaviour on new SBS 2003/SBS 2000

umm, odd that. Its not the hardware not being capable as anything you get should handle many times the 7Mb/s bandwidth, and you've seen it happen twice now on different servers. Client or server the web page should report the same Id have thought.

Its an interesting one. I'd disable one of the server NICs and all unrequired services and see if you get the same results. Server setup options may well have some influence here.

I tried Firefox and IE and got consistent results but maybe you could try a different browser just in case, but unlikely. It may be that the program is measuring a block transfer and reporting incorrectly for some reason. If you throw up Task Manager do the Network Utilisation graphs give the same figures on both client and server tests?





jaredea wrote: 
yes, it is a 2 nic setup and the test is from the server connected to
the DSL Router/Modem...the test involves going to our ISP test page
(stats.xmission.com/speedtest) -- the test is pretty accurate because
it is right to the ISP/DSL provider servers which (i believe) is one
hop from here...

Plugging into the server directly give me the slower speed - plugging
into the laptop directly gives me the faster speed...

jared


On Tue, 31 May 2005 04:56:15 +0100, aus <aus@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi,

where are you getting the 3-4meg speed - at the lan side of the server? - so the server is a 2 NIC setup (standard SBS style). If the server is doing routing there there will be some drop off I'd have thought as you are not direct.

Maybe Im misunderstanding where your speed measurement is. And how are you testing the speed - do you have a software meter or other?



jaredea wrote:

I'm seeing something very strange with both my SBS 2000 and SBS 2003
severs...i have a 7 meg DSL line from our ISP and on the old server i
would only get about 3-4 meg transfers on it...i was told by the ISP
to plug a stand-alone computer directly into the DSL modem (i have the
Cisco 678 going into 1 NIC and a 2nd NIC for the network)...so, i took
my laptop and plugged it right into the modem...did a speed test right
to the ISP and got 7 meg speeds...i chocked it up to the server and
since i was getting a new server in a few days and would be cleaning
off the old one I thought it would "work itself out" with the new
one...

Well, i just now installed SBS 2003 Premium on a brand new server and
the first thing i did was a speed test...this is where the problem
happens...i'm only getting about 3-4 meg speeds on the new server
(everything is new - new cat 6 cables, new modem, etc.) -- i plugged
the DSL right into the laptop and tested it again and got the 7 meg
speeds...

I have nothing on the new server yet (not even the SBS part, just the
Windows 2003 server part) and can't figure out why i'm getting the
slower speeds...

Any ideas?

jared 


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