Network speed degradation

I have a Windows network with 15 users running on a Domain using SBS2003.

The network gradually slows down during the day and users sometimes have
issues of waiting up to 1-2 mins to collect and open a file from the server.

The server itself is setup to do all it¹s AV scans, updates, backup¹s and so
on at night instead of the day.

All machines are XP pro and good spec (min 500mB ram¹s and good processors)
and the server is a 3.5GHz machine with 500mB ram too. It has not yet been
upgraded to SP1 for Servers.

Anyone any idea why the network speed starts dropping during the day??

Cheers


Steve B

Network speed degradationHi Steve,

It will be really hard to tell what could main problem here from information you provided. Two main things I would look into are:
- hard disks
- network

You can use performance monitor (perfmon.exe) to watch the performance of your server (including hard disks). You can also use task manager to see how processor is doing in this case...

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Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

"Steve Bragg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:C19E2879.160A3%(E-Mail Removed)...
I have a Windows network with 15 users running on a Domain using SBS2003.

The network gradually slows down during the day and users sometimes have issues of waiting up to 1-2 mins to collect and open a file from the server.

The server itself is setup to do all it's AV scans, updates, backup's and so on at night instead of the day.

All machines are XP pro and good spec (min 500mB ram's and good processors) and the server is a 3.5GHz machine with 500mB ram too. It has not yet been upgraded to SP1 for Servers.

Anyone any idea why the network speed starts dropping during the day??

Cheers


Steve B

On 7/12/06 21:55, in article (E-Mail Removed), "Miha
Pihler [MVP]" <mihap-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> It will be really hard to tell what could main problem here from information
> you provided. Two main things I would look into are:
> - hard disks
> - network
>
> You can use performance monitor (perfmon.exe) to watch the performance of your
> server (including hard disks). You can also use task manager to see how
> processor is doing in this case...
>

Thanks Mike

I have started to do this.

Cheers

S