Chapter 8: Network Performance Anxiety
In This Chapter
Understanding performance problems
Looking at bottlenecks
Developing a procedure for solving performance problems
Monitoring performance
Implementing other tips for speeding up your network
Network performance refers to how efficiently the network responds to users’ needs. Any access to resources that involves a network will be slower than similar access that doesn’t involve a network. For example, it takes longer to open a Word document that resides on a network file server than it takes to open a similar document that resides on a user’s local hard drive. However, it shouldn’t take much longer. If it does, you have a network performance problem.
This chapter is a general introduction to the practice of tuning your network so that it performs as well as possible. Keep in mind that many specific bits of network tuning advice are scattered throughout this book. In this chapter, you can find some specific techniques for analyzing ...
