From: "Geo." 

"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:0096bf.c2a4c7{at}harborwebs.com...

> 3.  My development partner (who does the front ends) said actually on my
other
> server the users DO sometimes lose the connection.  (!)   He also said if the
> ping test shows for example 3 packets received and 1 lost, that is normal.
> (!!!)

One packet in say 30-60 seconds would be acceptable maybe even normal in a
heavily loaded network. BUT only if it's a timeout, change the ping command

ping x.x.x.x -w 5000

Now it will wait 5 seconds (before it would wait just over 1 second) before
giving you the no reply message. If the packet is delayed it is normal, if
the packets still time out with the above and you see more than one in say
2 minutes, it's an indication of traffic being dropped instead of delayed.
That's not normal, that's an indication of a problem.

Geo.

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