I am a newbie system administrator. I manage the network infrastructure of a college.
My current network implementation consists of four 3Mbps Broadband Connection. The four connections are organized in pairs to be connected to a load balancing unit. The two load balancing units connect to a switch. A zeroshell box also connects to the switch.
The zeroshell box load balances between the two load balancers. It is also the router seen by the entire college network.
The zeroshell box is configured to drop p2p packets and only uses norton dns.
Now my problem is that although my current configuration is generally reliable and the performance is ok, there seems to be a notable difference in response time if compared to a situation wherein a pc is directly connected to a broadband modem, being new to this field I am not quite sure which part serves as the bottle neck.
I appreciate any input from you guys since I am considering the idea of requesting four additional broadband lines, but only if doing so would improve response time.
