Questions tagged [slow-connection]
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Unexplained slow gigabit network speeds
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Ok, I've tried the answers below and nothing has changed. I've identified the chipset in the laptop as the NVIDIA nForce 520. I downloaded the latest Vista x64 drivers for the nForce 520 (...
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How to Bond Two (Multiple) Internet Connections for Increased Speed and Failover
We are located in a rural area with two slow ADSL connections (3.5/0.5 Mbps) and wanted to improve connection speed and reliability by somehow "combining" them. The following describes our solution ...
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Bind DNS Recursion Slow
We have just setup a recursive DNS server using the latest stable release of Bind 9.10
We are finding that recursive DNS lookups are quite slow. Anywhere from 1 - 3 seconds. Once the lookup is in ...
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Determining why file transfers are so slow
I'm trying to transfer large files (3+ gigs each) across the lan. My connection is 100 megabit to the box, with a gigabit backbone. However, when transfering files between servers and from a server to ...
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Is it possible to merge multiple internet connections?
I have two internet connections at my place but the faster one is actually unreliable. :(
One is a broadband modem connected to PC via ethernet. The other one is a USB modem.
I would want to run ...
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Connections establish slowly, while download rate is great -Linux
EDIT: I have seen this problem elsewhere with an ADSL connection and not only USB modems or cell network.
I have my cell network USB modem attached and configured, running under Ubuntu 10.04
The ...
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mysql connection is slow (5seconds)
After building my webapp on a first boot i create 2 connections to mysql on debian then 1-2 (r/w) for every page after that. The connection consistently take 5.2 seconds to connect. Debian is in a VM ...
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ESXi 5.5, slow network speed when writing to guests
This is an issue that has been bugging me for a lot time with ESXi. I had the issue with my old Dell server (ESXi 5.0 and 5.5) and even with my new Dell T20 (ESXi 5.5).
For the current issue at hand I ...
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Why is a TLS handshake taking *forever* (20 seconds) on a VPS?
I have a server that generally works fine, but gets stuck for 20 seconds when trying to connect with SSL (either SSH or HTTPS display the same pattern.)
I tried various connections without SSL, such ...
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Linux box takes 10 seconds to make a connection
My machine is taking 10 seconds to establish a connection. Once the connection is established, it is up to speed and works correctly. But if I for example ping www.google.com, it takes 5 seconds for
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FreeNAS box has slow network transmit speeds
I'm seeing some really odd issues with network speeds on my FreeNas 8.0.3 box. Receiving traffic is fine, but sending traffic slows down to 10-50kb/s, and stalls a lot.
Receiving:
Transmitting:
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How can I troubleshoot slow Apache?
I am running apache2 (2.2) on Ubuntu on a VPS with 768MB of RAM. For some reason it takes several seconds to load any page (even static html). The only component I can blame is Apache. However, I have ...
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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 ...
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Slow network-home-folder use, many spinning beachballs
Xserve with 10.4.11 connected to Xserve RAID via FC. 208GB of 1.82TB available.
Xserve connects to HP 2848 Gigabit switch
Xserve houses network-home-folders for 14 users.
Clients (mac mini - intel ...
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Timeouts when connecting to SQL Server since installing SP1 for Windows 7
I just installed SP1 for windows 7 and I have severe performance degradation when connecting to SQL Server 2005 since then. Establishing connection takes more than 30 seconds while it's instantaneous ...
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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, ...
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Diagnosing Server 2008 and Windows 7 LAN Speed
I have a customer with Server 2008 in a VM, and maybe 15 Windows 7 clients. They are experiencing slowness when using an ERP system whose data resides on the server. The database in question is a load ...
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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 ...
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Slow IE8 Startup
Has anyone else had issues with IE8 taking it's own sweet time starting up and/or hanging?
I have a couple of machines on my network that won't start up quickly (like over a minute to load). I've ...
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pop3 caching proxy [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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Windows 7 extremely slow login, exchange performance, printer enumeration, etc
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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 ...
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MySql server connection problem
We've recently begun to have some downtime due to our database server (MySql) stops responding/refuses connections. We get the following (a lot) when we monitor with mytop:
5033 unauthent 217.75....
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Wireguard slow but only for windows upload
We have the problem that the connection from multiple client networks via Wireguard Tunnel to a Samba share on a server is slow, but weirdly it only affects Windows 10 and only uploads.
A Linux Host ...
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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 ...
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Slow network speed on ESXi hosts
I have been dealing with this problem for about half a year (had the luxury of time) and hadn't managed to crack it, so I finally resigned and came over here to ask for help from others not just ...
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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-...
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Bacula: initial Full Backup job taking too much time
I've chosen Bacula (v.5.0.2) to do backups of our office worker's data.
The Director and Storage Daemon run on a Debian based root server (the SERVER) rented from a major german hosting company.
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Troubleshooting A Slow Website/Internet Connection
When I load my website, there is a significant connection lag. Sometimes, the page will take 20-30 seconds just to connect to the server and sometimes it will never finalize the request, only ...
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Stop slowing down fast and verbose operations when using ssh over slow connections
I often copy many files between 2 servers connected via 1GBit ethernet while I am connected via VPN and SSH over DSL. The problem is, that the verbose output (1 line per copied file) which needs to be ...
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Disk overload and slow server
I monitored my disk on my server because my website is slow.
Here is my disk statistic:
Read: 0.29 reqs/s Write: 50.19 reqs/s
I don't understand why I have 50 requests by second on my disk in ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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:// ...
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Fedora slow login using ssh or telnet using ipaddress
HEllo my friends...
My fedora 7 server has become very slow in the login phase from ssh or telnet.
I just use ip to connect (no dns needs) and when I log locally it's fast as usual.
If I ping or ...
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DIR-625 Router - Apple computers slow web browsing
I have a DIR-625 Wireless Router for my home network. We have several PCs connected and all get excellent speeds but for some reason, the 2 Apple notebooks I have connected drag when loading up web ...
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Performance - Windows Server 2008 R2 vs Windows Server 2012 [closed]
we have two different server that runs the same server application. They have to handle lot of connections (2000+) in a custom protocol, our users have our program to connect to our servers.
Machine ...
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4 - 7 second delay accessing Mysql across the network
our company has recently purchased a new server with the intention of replacing our aging database server.
its a full 64bit 2008 enterprise system, i have got the basic server setup and configured ...
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ADSL to T1, Is it worth it for us?
The company I work for has roughly 45-55 simultaneous users (local and remote/VPN) logged in at a given time. We currently subscribe to an ADSL connection but we have been experiencing slower upload/...
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Entire home network slows down due to Linksys WRT54GL [closed]
This is the second one I'm trying, so it's either me or something else is up. When I connect any of my LAN devices directly to our cable modem, the speeds are perfect. No latency, no packet loss and ...
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Slow shared NAS storage for VM cluster
I have a problem with a very slow virtual machines.
I have two HP DL380 G6 servers in the cluster that are connected to the Synology NAS 2416+. Everything is connected via the HP 1620 Switch.
On the ...
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moving files and directories between two machine, via a third, preserving permissions and usernames
The situation is as follows:
Machine A has a file repository accessible via rsync
Machine B needs
the above mentioned files with all permissions and ownerships intact
(including groups etc)
Machine ...
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Throw Away Dial-Up Account
I'm going away on vacation to a location in Canada where highspeed internet access is not readily available. There's been a dial up connection until this year, where it got cancelled to save money as ...
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Why does Amazon recommends reading 'all data' as soon as possible during S3 download?
While reading up official documentation on Amazon S3 Java SDK, I found an interesting note:
Your network connection remains open until you read all of the data or close the input stream. We ...
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Connecting to mysql over TCP hangs for 3 seconds
I have a problem with a newly installed MySQL box:
When trying to access the database with multiple clients and a lots of retries, sporadically, connecting takes longer than 3 seconds. I only get ...
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Is it possible to force Windows 10 to use higher TCP window scale?
I have two Windows 10 machines (bld 2004) I am trying to send data to between two sites. The sites average about 50ms RTT with no packet loss. I am having an issue where the max transfer rate I can ...