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I am running windows server 2008 R2.  I have 2 servers, one is an IIS web server and the other is a SQL server.  The SQL Server is fine, but my IIS server every 5 to 12 pings, it looses at least 1 or more packets.The ms is very large, but the ms on the other server is fine, so I know it's not my internet connection.

Dont know exactly when it started doing this, but most of my websites are down because of this.  I restarted the server numerous times and it does the same thing, packet loss continues..

Any direction or help would be much appreciated.
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I will reply with more details tomorrow might.
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I've just attached a copy of the output of netstat -a after I restarted the server, as it was running so slow I had to do something about it.  Since I restarted the server, the ms times is better, still a bit slow, but ok.  I still have dropped packets, "request timed out", i just can't figure out why that is happened, as on my other server,  I don't have any dropped packets, well maybe one every few minutes, but on this server, it's like one every 10 seconds.


A little about my servers, the servers are hosted, and are NOT on our network.  They are on a seperate network than my internal network. I have 2 servers and one is fine, but the other is not, that's where I get all these packet loss.  I have about 15 static IP's on the server.  Running windows server 2008 R2 on both servers.  I tried pinging the servers from both, my work and my house, and I get the same results, dropped packets.  My work and home networks are again totally different networks.  

I actually had a DOS attack 2 years ago, and it was totally different, it was so bad that the data center called me and asked me what am I doing, as his entire bandwidth was being saturated by my server.  So I'm fairly confident that it's not a DOS attack.

The IPs with xxx.xxx are my local server IPs.

Any more direction would be appreciated.
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Can anyone provide any tips of what I should be looking at that could cause this issue?

I have attached 2 more screenshots with pings from the servers as of 5 minutes ago.
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The server is my web server. Is that not normal activity for a Web server?  We have about 30 websites on that server, so is that not normal?
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No, they both have the exact same internet connection, they are in a data center.  It's probably fiber.  I have up to 20Mbps connectionf or both servers.  The internet connection is NOT wifi or satelite, it's a fiber connection into a data center.
then this problem may be a ISP/Cloud based problem. It appears that you  have RF (Radio Frequency) somewhere within your connection. It appears that RF is interferred with. So, this is what you can do...

Snatch up one laptop from the problem child data center and hook it up outside the firewall/gateway. Set the network config settings to auto and let the populate from your ISP. Now see if the times still look fowl.
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Thanks guys for your help, the problem was with a security software that one of my co-workers installed on the server, that causing the droped packets.  As soon as the service was stopped, everything is good now,