Yes, usually this sort of location specific slowdown is due to a particularly chatty device within the subnet, manytimes infected with something, compromised zombie, etc.

On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Jim Lawson wrote:

> Helen Read wrote:
>> We are experiencing severe network slowness (accessing files from mapped drives,
>> downloading files from web) over in Votey. Anyone else having issues?
> 
> I just downloaded Python 2.5.5 at 2.8MB/sec from off-campus!  *ducks*
> 
> On a possibly more helpful note, I'm not seeing any performance issues
> DNS- or server-side within ETS, and our monitoring systems seem to be
> happy, so it may be a local-network issue.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Lawson
> Systems Architecture & Administration
> Enterprise Technology Services
> University of Vermont
> Burlington, VT USA

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