One for the inter/network peoples

The internet should not drop based on throughput, the system is designed to place the needed margin for error in place when it decides your connection profile.

It could be your router having a bit of a meltdown when there is lots of traffic and crashing, would expect it to simply lock up in that case.

How are you running these servers? DMZ? Port Forwarding?

Can you put QoS or speed limiting in on your router?

I have seen connections crashed when uploading at max speed, which happens when you have outgoing email or are hosting a web server.

Hosted Exchange is marvellous btw .

[Dave20046]

Port forwarding, only allowed ports are 80 443 25 1723 and are directed to Our server.
THe router hasn't reported a disconnect in about 12 hours but plenty of syn floods.

Something else I've noticed is if I trace route to BBC it times out at the hop after 194.74.65.42 , a Google shows the next hop should be 212.58.238.129, we can't reach this.

[Dave20046]

CHeap router doesn't have qos, the previous bt router may will check it out

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by markc123

Hosted Exchange is marvellous btw .

You are lying

Nothing involving the word "Exchange" when referring to anything by Microsoft Products is marvellous.

Get out now, switch to Gmail and host your Web Servers on the Amazon Cloud

Its what I did

[Dave20046]

Bt engineer is insisting it's their fault , rare but I'm going to let him crack on with switching the line

[Dave20046]

Switched the line, changed the SNR and throttled it back at the exchange and we're working again...we'll see how long for.
I've now been tasked with making sure it doesn't happen again cheers for the hosting suggestions going to explore those.
Going to buy a proper router with somesort of redundancy and get a second ADSL line fitted. For somereason the guy that's apparently been sat on the problem for however long is dead against getting a proper router AND a secondary line. Also as soon as we got back up today the eccentric nerd suddenly got involved and implied he'd been on the phone to 'someone' about blocking a DOS attack and questioned why there were (a handful) of open ports on the firewall..."erm to let traffic reach the server?" . Good old office politics, cheers for the posts chaps.

There should be a law that allows you to thump people like that...

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by orose

There should be a law that allows you to thump people like that...

I agree, just a case of classic geek competitiveness/insecurity they always seem to try and 'get one over on you' - right pain in the árse trying to work as a 'team' with people in IT.

I just don't understand it, because things go a lot smoother when people stop behaving like children and work towards a common aim.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Switched the line, changed the SNR and throttled it back at the exchange and we're working again...we'll see how long for.
I've now been tasked with making sure it doesn't happen again cheers for the hosting suggestions going to explore those.
Going to buy a proper router with somesort of redundancy and get a second ADSL line fitted. For somereason the guy that's apparently been sat on the problem for however long is dead against getting a proper router AND a secondary line. Also as soon as we got back up today the eccentric nerd suddenly got involved and implied he'd been on the phone to 'someone' about blocking a DOS attack and questioned why there were (a handful) of open ports on the firewall..."erm to let traffic reach the server?" . Good old office politics, cheers for the posts chaps.

the part in red sounds very suspicious to me and if i were the boss i would be wanting to know who he phoned and why. your IT bod need fired as he clearly has no fekin idea.

slight derail.. i had a mate who works for a very large company with hundreds of PC's in daily use. it was time for them to upgrade to XP so he gave ma a phone asking how to go about installing XP on all the PC's over night. i said i would make him an unattended installation disc with a huge driver database so no matter what machine he puts it in it will just do its stuff and instructions on how to make these for his company and NOT to use the one i gave him or go about learning how to run it from a server with his version. guess what he done.. yup that right he copied and burnt hundreds of discs using the disc i gave him instead of learning how to do it himself. needless to say he had to do it all again for some strange reason

yes i ****ed myself laughing

why am i telling you this, well sometimes there are IT bods who think they know what they are doing but in reality live of the backs of others.