Andrew's guess is closest - I was multicast imaging at the time of
Helens severe network slowness experience.  Don't despair, I'm going to
try to do the rest after 8:30pm tonight [thurs].  Victor

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Andrew Hendrickson wrote:
> 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.
>>
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>> Enterprise Technology Services
>> University of Vermont
>> Burlington, VT USA
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