Ok, this has me baffled:
We have two branches in Virginia. One in Roanoke and one in Lynchburg.
We are a material handling company (think forklifts) and we have vendor websites that we use daily. The heart of the problem is that the Lynchburg branch gets such a slow response from one of the vendor websites (
http://partner.crown.com ) that it is almost unusable.
They voiced this problem to me so I decided to see how the website worked for our Roanoke branch. It works flawlessly with great speed. Both branches are on fractional T1 lines provided by the same ISP.
My testing thus far:
Our HQ is in West Virginia. To try to get as fair a test as possible, I remote desktop into Roanoke's DNS server and also into Lynchburg's DNS server.
With both server windows open (Windows 2003 Server, Internet Explorer 6 with identical settings) I start a ping to the vendor site. The pings look almost identical with no dropped packets - good response time.
Then I do a tracert from both servers - almost identical path to the vendor site with the same response times.
When I open ANY website (Google, Microsoft, Adobe, etc...) from both servers, they display the site at identical speeds. However, when I open the vendor site on both machines... one comes up instantly... one lags like no tomorrow.
As I said, both browsers are set exactly the same on the servers. Every user gets great response time from the vendor site at the Roanoke branch. Every user gets terrible response time from Lynchburg.
This has me totally stumped and I probably left out some information so please let me know if there is any more insight I can provide.
Thanks!
Mike
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