08-31-2023, 08:53 AM
Remember that time at my old gig when the network choked during lunch rushes? We had folks yelling about slow file shares. I poked around the router logs first. Saw packets piling up like traffic in a storm. Turned out our switch was overheating in the server closet. Swapped it out quick. But yeah, that fixed the bursts.
Or sometimes it's the server itself gasping under load. You check task manager for rogue processes eating CPU. I once found a backup job hogging bandwidth at peak. Paused it during off hours. Spikes vanished.
Hmmm, could be cabling too, frayed wires causing echoes in data flow. Test with a cable scanner if you suspect. And don't forget external stuff like ISP throttling. Ping your gateway during spikes. If it's jumping, call them up.
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