Fire wall Problems

1. Network Technicians who don't want to work the night shift to do maintenance, so they schedule it right before they go home.

2. Prime time. I'm not sure where I read it, but 8-10, 11-1, 4-6 and 2 am seem to be the peak points of any network,wether it be Intranet or Internet. ( all times local )

The firewall will seem to slow down when a lot of peoplel are generating traffic to and from the outside world (i.e the Internet, other companies, etc).

Our network peaks, and the likely explanation, are as follows:

8-10 AM: People are showing up for work, so the first thing they often do is read and answer their e-mails. Depending on what the company does, they may be sending and receiving from outside the company.

11 AM - 1 PM: People have their lunch hour sometime in here. During this time, they're allowed to surf the web, check hotmail, and do anything else that's low-bandwidth but not offical company business.

4-6 PM: People are getting ready to go home, so they get back on the e-mail and fire off a lot of stuff to meet deadlines and feel like they got more done that day. One or more people are probably backing up their files to a network drive, too.

I hope this helps.

Good fortune,
Don

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