010/1/25 Andrew Spode Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spode@thinkbikes.com">spode@thinkbikes.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
During those slowdowns, is it that you can't access the server, or that you can't access any other machines on the network? That distinction is important in diagnosis.<br><br>Rather than wiring - my inclination would be a faulty switch somewhere, perhaps overheating and dropping down to hub mode?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Spode could be right thinking down the switch problem track. If these are older switches it can take up to 50 seconds for STP to do its organizing of ports. How large is the network?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Colin </div>