[OPLINTECH] Maxing out our T1

[Matt Hoffman]

Phil,

It's the same here, though we have 4 branches and 3 T1's (one just added
6 months ago or so).  Added T1's shortly get maxed out as well.

           Matt Hoffman, Network Administrator
Cleveland Heights - University Heights  Public Library
    (voice) 216-932-3600 x 284 (fax) 216-932-0932
 mhoffman at heightslibrary.org www.heightslibrary.org

  

-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]
On Behalf Of Tyra Ealy
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:02 PM
To: Phil Shirley; oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Maxing out our T1


Hi Phil,

Join the crowd!  We have the same problem, but we have a lot more
buildings/computers.  I added a 2nd T1 earlier this year and immediately
maxed it out too!  I've been looking for solutions, so far none.

Tyra 


Tyra L. Ealy
Information Technology Manager
Warren-Trumbull County Public Library
444 Mahoning Ave. NW
Warren, OH 44483
330-399-8807, ext. 140
http://www.wtcpl.org
 

-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]
On Behalf Of Phil Shirley
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:44 AM
To: oplintech at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Maxing out our T1

Our Internet speed is very slow for a good part of each day.  I have
called the OPLIN help desk during these times and they've reported that
we were using most of our T1 at the time (93% last time I called). 
OPLIN referred our problem to the network engineers at the state, and
I've had a couple of people look at our traffic, and nobody can find
anything bad going on, except that we just seem to have a lot of traffic
(traffic dies down to almost nothing when the library's closed,  with
all our computers turned on).  We're considering getting additional
bandwidth from OPLIN or Time Warner.

I would be interested to know if anyone else has had this experience. 
We are a single-site library; we have 34 public Internet computers, and
we allow games, streaming video, chat, and all kinds of things (except
dirty pictures and stuff like that).  We do have one wifi access point
for the public (segmented from the rest of our network) but its traffic
is very low, and unplugging it didn't make a difference; I blocked the
bandwidth-hog Runescape one day and that didn't make a noticeable
difference.

Has anyone else faced an issue like this?  Is the modern web just too
bandwidth-intensive for us to rely on a T1 for all our needs?  Thanks
for any comments.

Phil
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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary dot org

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