Re: network with bandwidth problems need help please. by Morisot
Morisot
Mon May 22 18:08:02 CDT 2006
Hi, Karl
(I know re-direction is necessary at times.) You gave a kind and informative
answer. (It was a nice thing to see.)
8-)
M.
"Karl Levinson" wrote:
>
> "server 2000 Group policy for windows xp"
> <server2000Grouppolicyforwindowsxp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:669F3208-DD07-47ED-898E-8E587A9E9E46@microsoft.com...
> >
> > Thanks for any help here, i have a network with 2 Server 2000 and 60
> > workstation,
> > Windows 2000 and windows XP Pro.
> >
> > we are running a database called Visual Fox Pro 9.0 , we have security
> > cameras that monitor 25 places on the building , now the way to display
> > this
> > cameras are over the TCP/IP , so we have a computer setup with LCD monitor
> > to
> > display this cameras not all of them only 6 ,
> > the computer works for a few days some times but some times the software
> > for the cameras called "network viewer" does not respond, i called tech
> > support for the product and they say is not their software , well i now is
> > not the computer so , may be a Bandwidth problems
> >
> > We have 10/100 MB network.
> > Have you guy seen a problem like this ??/.how can i test my network
> > bandwidth, do i need to purchase a software, I really need help here I
> > have
> > never seen a problems with the bandwidth ..
>
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> Network bandwidth is not what I suspect first here. These videocameras are
> probably sending a steady, regular stream of traffic, so if there was going
> to be a problem, I would expect it to happen right away, or during busy time
> periods of high network traffic, not at random, and not six days later.
> Even if the problem really was network traffic, that's a poorly written app
> that stops responding when packets are dropped. Streaming video
> applications EXPECT some data to be lost in transit, and to keep on going
> without locking up.
>
> Rather than guessing that it might be a bandwidth problem, I would be trying
> to figure out who supports that software that is locking up. That's who you
> need to be speaking to. Bad software can cause problems even on a PC that
> you "know" is not the problem. [I'm really not sure how you know for
> certain the PC is not the problem, unless maybe multiple PCs are having the
> problem at the same time?]
>
> I don't see Visual FoxPro as being related to this problem... it's a
> database software, generally unrelated to watching video images. If the
> people you called for support was Microsoft for Visual FoxPro support, I'm
> not at all surprised if they told you it was not their problem. If a
> programmer used Visual FoxPro to create this application somehow, you should
> be talking to that programmer. Someone somewhere has to know the correct
> details about who made this software and how it was set up.
>
> Unless you have a network administrator or programmer on your staff that
> knows how to answer this question, I would consider hiring help.
>
> Using a sniffer like www.ethereal.com can help you take a look at the
> traffic, but it takes experience and knowledge of TCP/IP to know what you
> are looking at.
>
> Last, this is a newsgroup about computer security with Microsoft software,
> so this isn't really the place to get your question answered.
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