Re: speed up internet?

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:14:18 -0700, jaredean <junk@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm wondering if there are any tweaks i can do to our network to speed
up our internet connection...i know that my brother has ISA 2004, like
we do, and a consultant informed him that if he disabled it and went
with a Firebox that it would be safer (i know that isn't true), but
faster as well...so, he did disable it and it sped things up quite a
bit -- he says sites load very very fast now and the whole network
experience is faster...his was a brand new install (that i did myself)
so i know that his settings weren't tweaked to be slower - but i'm
wondering if there are some settings i can tweak to speed things up?

We have a 10 meg Fiber Optic line and i've yet to see close to those
speeds (but, if i plug a laptop right into the line, bypassing the
server i get almost 10 meg everytime)...

You might want to take a look at these two papers. ISA 2006 is not
radically different than ISA 2004.

ISA Server 2004 Performance Best Practices
http://www.virtual.com/product_sheets/Network_Engines_ISA_2004_Best_Practices_ds.pdf

Best Practices for Performance in ISA Server 2006
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2006/perf_bp.mspx

jas
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