Hi, We have 2 offices - Paris and London - paris(approx 5-10 users) 2mb internet connection and london 4mb with a VPN between the 2 firewalls at each end. i'm getting alot of users in paris complaining email comes up with 'requesting data' messgae on outlook. if i do network tests to and from email server i get 80-100kb/sec both ways which should be more than enough. can't see any network errors apart from bottleneck london end as quite a number of other connections coming inot the 4mb. running exchange 2000 in a 2 server cluster environment.. client running XP with outlook 2000. any ideas to test exchange 2000 connectivity? thanks in advance. anton
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 11:51:54 +0100, "Ants" wrote: >Hi, >We have 2 offices - Paris and London - paris(approx 5-10 users) 2mb internet >connection and london 4mb with a VPN between the 2 firewalls at each end. > >i'm getting alot of users in paris complaining email comes up with >'requesting data' messgae on outlook. >if i do network tests to and from email server i get 80-100kb/sec both ways >which should be more than enough. can't see any network errors apart from >bottleneck london end as quite a number of other connections coming inot the >4mb. > >running exchange 2000 in a 2 server cluster environment.. client running XP >with outlook 2000. >any ideas to test exchange 2000 connectivity? >thanks in advance. >anton > Sounds like what you'd expect really. If you know you have a bandwidth issue at one end then you might want to look at a packet shaper. An alternative would be E2K3 and Outlook 2003. You can then run in nice Cached Mode and the message dissapears out of sight (but doesn't actually go). Your users interact with their OST and their OST then interacts with the Exchange server. Round trips are reduced (freeing bandwidth) and the user experience is enhanced.
