Practical Packet Analysis

Double Vision

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In this scenario, you have installed and configured a brand new computer for Jeff, the newest company employee. Usually, when you install a new computer, you expect it to be faster than the rest of the devices on your network. However, after only a short while, Jeff reports that during times of peak usage, his computer is experiencing severe slowness to the point that certain network services become unavailable.

What We Know

First of all, we know that Jeff's computer is brand new, so it should be running at optimal performance. Aside from that, there are no other reports of network slowness, during either peak or off-peak usage times. We also know that Jeff is a very high bandwidth user. Most of his tasks are network ...