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Internet Speed vs LAN speed

Is it possible to have the LAN speed slow way down when my connection to the internet drops? On two different, independent locations, both running Windows AD domains, we find the LAN speed falls slows way down whenever the internet speed drops or the circuit drops.

Does this make any sense to anyone? Or am I misconfigured somewhere possibly?

Thanks for any explanations why or help troubleshooting.

Kwoof

It depends what things you are doing...if you are dealing with documents that reference internet located data or pictures, then there will be timeouts waiting to resolve the URLs, etc.

If you have remote hosted data, then there may be timeouts getting to that data.

If there are programs that need to authenticate their license to continue operating or initially open, then there would be delays for that as well.

garyoh

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Everything this company does is hosted, Google Talk, Job Ticketing software, email, web searches for repair information, the only thing on the lan are documents they've saved and their backups. Oh, and printing.

Almost everything is SaaS there. Can you give me a bit more detail as to why?

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bbao

> Is it possible to have the LAN speed slow way down when my connection to the internet drops?

i would speculate that's not LAN speed slowed down when internet connection drops, it should be just time-out for local application's connections to the remote hosts, and the users may have lag experience accordingly.

garyoh

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In testing, I find this to be true