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Why Didn’t My Bandwidth Upgrade Speed Up My File Copies?
“We just upgraded from a T1 (1.544 mbps) to a T3 (44.736 mbps) so why is it still taking 90 minutes to copy that file?” The simple answer is that more capacity is not the same as faster bytes. If you increase your capacity by almost 29 (44.736 / 1.544) times you may be able [...]
Is Your Pre-production Network Testing Effective?
I would like to expand on Paul’s recent blog “Is your pre-production testing effective?”. Paul covered CPU utilization and code paths but there is another very important aspect of many applications – network utilization. Many applications are tested in a LAN environment with latencies in the sub-millisecond range and bandwidth at least at 100 mbps. They [...]
