What is bad performance?

FormerMember

I'm trying to nail down some intermittent issues at one of my WAN locations.  I'm having a hard time trying to figure out if the metrics are good or bad.

What is an acceptable or unacceptable response time? What is an acceptable or unacceptable bandwidth utilization?

I know these questions are relative to the environment, but if anyone has any advice to share it would be greatly appreciated.

Robert

ecklerwr1

 You have to start by looking at where the issue starts?  You said a WAN location.  First rule out that the network is good from remote site to your core resources.  Then... Look at it from the users perspective that is making the complaint.  It could be a specific application and not network related at all.  Work your way back from remote user to the resources they are trying to access.  More times than I can count it wasn't the network but some poorly designed client server application or fat client doing a bunch of database transactions accross the WAN.  This can sometimes be remedied with Citrix.  Also remember how subjective your question was.  If your pings are between 0 and 500 ms from edge to core you can probably rule that out if it's consistent.  Usually if it's not it could be real errors or as you might say over utilized which would mean something like a circuit reaching capacity and packets actually being dropped.  NPM can help rule  these things out... but keep in mind... it's often not the network.

http://www.webperformancematters.com/journal/2007/7/10/acceptable-response-times.html

http://www.webperformancematters.com/journal/2007/7/6/performance-is-always-subjective.html