[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] How much does server location matter?

[Paul Bartell]

I would try running a ping and traceroute to try and determine
possible sources of network congestion. This should be done once or
twice when the response time is fast and then when it is slow to see
if there is any difference.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Vicki Reeves <vickir at beau.org> wrote:
> One fairly reliable way to check connectivity speed is to go to
> http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/
> Select a city near you and run the test.  It checks download and upload
> speeds.
>
>
> On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 09:57 -0700, Lori Bowen Ayre wrote:
>> Judy,
>>
>>
>> If it is a network connectivity issue, it is undoubtedly related to
>> your Internet connectivity, not the distance between you and ESI. You
>> should be able to test that pretty easily if you get the right
>> equipment in.  Any local network/WAN company could do some of that
>> testing.
>>
>>
>> So, it isn't limited to OPAC access?  It's from the client as well?
>>  I'm just thinking about the slowness problems KCLS ran into, which
>> seemed to be primarily OPAC related.
>>
>>
>> Lori
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Judy Daniluk <jdaniluk at ntrls.org>
>> wrote:
>>         Our libraries are all in North Texas, but our server is in
>>         Georgia (hosted at Equinox).
>>
>>
>>         We often have problems with slow response time, and individual
>>         libraries have days when they get lots of network errors,
>>         which I assume are caused by timeouts.  One library has days
>>         when they can't use Evergreen online at all, even though the
>>         other libraries are operating normally and the affected
>>         library can access other Internet resources normally.  We also
>>         see quite a few cases where items get scanned for check-in but
>>         the system doesn't actually check them in, and I'm guessing
>>         that that's caused by network issues.
>>
>>
>>         Some of the problem might be caused by network infrastructure
>>         at the libraries or the ISPs serving the libraries, but we
>>         also suspect that the distance between us and our server might
>>         be aggravating the problem.
>>
>>
>>         What do the experts out there think? Would we see better
>>         performance if we shorten the network distance between us and
>>         our server?
>>
>>
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>>
>>         Judy Daniluk
>>
>>         Technology Consultant,  North Texas Library Partners
>>
>>         6320 Southwest Blvd., Suite 101, Fort Worth, TX 76109
>>
>>         jdaniluk at ntrls.org     817-201-6778 (cell)     817-377-4440
>>         (office)     www.ntrls.org
>>
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