Network Trouble Shooting help.

[Timothy J. Finucane]

I work at Algonquin Studios and we have a couple of people who do work
with Windows Networks frequently.

Phone Number: 716-842-1439


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:04, Greg Neumann wrote:
> Anybody know anybody qualified to do network trouble shooting for a 
> Windows 2000/XP setup?
> Intuit tech supports blames network hardware/settings for troubles we're 
> having. I don't have the equipment or real expertise to do this. It's a 
> very small network setup, 11 pc's, (one pretending to be a 
> server,another pretending to be a firewall), 2 print servers, one 
> networked printer connected by various 10/100 8 port switches. I've 
> checked all that I can (looks like it's connected, the status lights 
> show "good", pings go through in good time) but ... I can't find any of 
> the "lag" or bandwidth hogging processes that Intuit insists is causing 
> the problems. I've gone so far as to disconnect everything but the 
> server and a single workstation.
> Anyway, as this could be marginal hardware, and I have no tools for 
> checking that, I've been asked to seek outside assistance.
> Runs TCP/IP in a Win2000 environment. NO active Linux boxes connected, 
> and I'm not real familiar w/ network troubleshooting tools. This will, 
> of course, pay some money.
> Any recommendations?
> Thanks,
> Greg Neumann