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by garo

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Can anyone recommend a trusted network speed tool to trial free before I buy.
I have 2 netgear GS724T Smart Switches one at end of the office serving a small team and linked to the server all fine.
The second swith has an uplink from the first at the other end of the office with only 6 users hanging off it, all complain of slow speed

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by oh smeg

Is that the internal Network or to the Internet?

If it is for the Internal Network have you checked for any type of Infections that may be chewing up your Internal Bandwidth? The more traffic that is on the Internal Network the slower the response times will appear to be.

For an External Connection what is the Speed of your Internet Connection? Splitting one Internet Connection over several users slows down response times considerably and if it was a slow ADSL Connection to begin with it will be too slow for any heavy Duty Web Browsing.

Remember that having things like Torrents Installed also qualifies as Infecting the units as they chew up Bandwidth like there is no tomorrow.

As for a Network Testing utility how about a Free one Wireshark?

http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Just remember to look at the Get Help pages here

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/

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by garo

Thanks for the replay, your recomendation was one of two I will be trying.

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