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Questions tagged [slow-connection]

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Mac OS X machines - VERY slow access to Windows shares

I have a handful of mac boxes accessing a share from a remote Windows Server 2003 box over a site-to-site VPN. They are connecting to the share using cifs, authenticating with AD credentials, and performance is absolutely pathetic - think waiting…
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Email delivery is slow between us and counterparty. What can I do to determine root cause?

Emails between us and a specific counterparty are delayed. To give you some idea, we send 10 messages and over 40% arrive with a 20 (or greater) minute delay. We even had two messages arrive in 50 minutes! I'm measuring the delay based on the header…
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Windows 7 extremely slow login, exchange performance, printer enumeration, etc

Background: I have a fresh copy of Windows 7 Professional x64 on a Dell Latitude E6500. The laptop has 8GB RAM, 250GB drive, and all Intel peripherals (net/wifi/graphics). All available Windows updates, as well as hardware drivers are installed. The…
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Is there a way to measure clients connection speed?

Suppose you run a website and you are getting reports from your customers in a particular office that your website has suddenly become very slow. But it's perfectly fast everywhere you test it from, so you suspect the problem is at their end - for…
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Slow windows DNS server

I have a microsoft DNS server for a local domain, running Windows server 2016STD. This computer is also a domain controller. It's configured to forward to fast public DNS servers. From any computer in the network, directly configuring these same…
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Slow Login on Network Windows 7

I am trying to troubleshoot an issue where it takes a very long time (4-5 minutes) for users to log on to their computers on a network, and after catching this timeline with the Windows Performance Analyzer, I was wondering why there is a 203 second…
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test connection status and speed between azure vm and client

We have some VMs up and running, but we are seeing slow performance on some of them. We are unsure if it is a VM problem (Azure overloaded), an intermediate network problem or a problem on the client side Speedtest reports on the server exceeds…
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Asset (js, css, images) loading is extremly slow on apache after update

I am running an Ubuntu 14.04 based linux web server and did an update by "apt-get upgrade". Everything worked fine before this update. After this update the time to load assets like JS- or CSS-files is randomly extreme high examples: I didn't…
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bacula backups very slow with TCP socket in 'unkn-4' state

Several bacula-fd clients are backing up to one bacula SD (using 2G disk files on massive RAID, not tape), usually 2-3 of them concurrently. It works fine, except when 2 bigger clients (about 400-900GB each) need to run full backups, which get…
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Connection to SQL Server 2008 R2 Database Server is SLOW

The database server is a VM running SQL Server 2008 R2 on top of Windows Server 2012, 24GB RAM allocated and 2TB of disk space. Overall, the database connections are very slow and one thing that stands out is that the connection to the database…
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pop3 caching proxy

I have a really slow and unreliable internet connection at the office. I also have one email account where many people download mail from the same account without deleting them form the server. (kind of a shared bugs/support/alarms account that…
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How to silently buffer tunnel traffic on network split, and automatically renew the connection when possible?

I have a slow connection between two machines, one in Germany and another in China. Connection sometimes breaks apart, and the packet loss is about 5%, at times even reaching 20%. Chinese machine has an outgoing bandwidth of ~256 kbit. Transfer of…
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Gigabit Ethernet on 200 mbit/s speed - why?

Today I tried to connect two laptop computers, both having Gigabit Ethernet NICs, both with Windows 7, with straight cable cat 5e. The cable is ca 50 cm long so the category 5e should be enough. I've set static IP addresses for both and tested them…
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How to speed up Drupal 7 with remote DB (not DNS resolving)

we have Drupal 7 on Ubuntu LTS virtual machine (VMWare) with MySQL 5.1 server on the same physical server, but on a different virtual machine. The Drupal website is currently under development, therefore there is practically no traffic, however,…
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Mac clients intermittently wait minutes to connect to SMB shares

My Mac OS X (10.6 & 10.7) clients all intermittently but frequently experience extremely slow connection times to my Windows 2008R2 shares. From the Go To Server menu, they can enter an smb:// path either in FQDN or IP and connect, but encounter a…
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