[geeks] Hosting centers

[Fogg, James]

I've seen cheap cable cause lots of problems. Then again, I've seen cheap
hubs and switches chow packets too.

My company is located in two Exodus centers with no problem. Then again, we
are on the older Cisco switches, not the new switches they want us to switch
to.

I would suspect the switchports. Are you sure your packet loss is in the
link and not in the network? 15% is atrocious lossage.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Big Endian [mailto:bigendian at mac.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 1:51 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [geeks] Hosting centers
> 
> 
> Has anybody ever had troubles with ethernet cabling (plain cat5) in a 
> datacenter?  I'm having network troubles at our server farm (hosted 
> at an exodus data center).  Large levels of packet loss but there 
> isn't any trouble with upto 15-20% packet loss in some cases.  I'm 
> not sure why.  Its not the switch and its not the server loads. 
> Could it be EMI?  would it be worth it to invest in shielded cables?
> 
> daniel
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