That's hilarious.

Gmail and Outlook are probably the best free services. Yahoo isn't horrible as an interface but it is just not secure.

I bet a lot of people made surprise trips to the shore today.

@ambarishrh So you have MPLS to one datacenter, then IPSec between datacenters on the open Internet and then MPLS to the last office? So three legs instead of two? That could easily explain the latency. It's not the IPSec that is likely the issue but that you are doing three hops instead of one. That's not a trivial amount of extra communications and depending on the locations you might have a lot of latency at any given point.

You could pretty easily measure each hop's latency to see where things are a problem.

@ambarishrh said:

Riverbed, as I've seen from their demo video, caches the files once accessed, so even though it might not fix the latency issue, users will have faster access to the files. We are still in touch with their IT teams to find a possible solution

You can do that with Windows Branch Cache too.

Thanks for the link.

@Joyfano said:

Finally got a chance to visit here.
Working with testing of our trial internet connection for new online Production project.

New ISP?

Cisco consumer devices have always had a horrible reputation.

I love that show. Mock the Week is hilarious. If you like "Whose Line Is It Anyway" and follow the news this is great.

Very true. It is already quite amazing that Blackberry still exists at all.

Saw in the news today that people are predicting this to be the end of Blackberry.

In this day and age, most people are more scared of "what happens to you if your accounts die?"

Just getting started on the day. Nothing planned on a nice Sunday.

@Joyfano said:

(uploading 100%)

Looks like you jumped the gun on posting. Picture hadn't loaded yet.

@scottalanmiller said:

We use SMB over a link of roughly 50ms and it works pretty decently. But it is a 100Mb/s link, not 2Mb/s. And we don't use it very heavily.

That's only 40% of the latency of this link with fifty fold the bandwidth. The difference will be very noticeable.

@ambarishrh said:

May be we should look for some products like riverbed which might help us solve this. Still checking on possible solutions

Riverbed cannot fix latency, it helps with bandwidth. It will improve things but the latency will remain an issue. Not a cheap way to solve the problem, those are quite expensive units.

@ambarishrh said:

One question on the SMB transfer. what will be the optimal latency for SMB file transfer access over these network?

SMB is latency sensitive so you'll want it as low as possible. It will "work" over 120ms but it won't be a great experience. NFS is less sensitive to latency.

@ambarishrh said:

So after the initial investigation, we just knew that the main office here is connected on MPLS, and the branch office in India also on MPLS, but the main datacenter connecting these two locations are on IPSEC!

I am not sure that I understand this one. So the branch offices connect via MPLS to which other offices (not each other?) And the main datacenter uses IPSec to connect to where? And where is the main office? If the main office is not in the middle of the Indian Ocean it must be adding latency simply by making the packets take longer physically to get between locations but also adding hops. If there is MPLS from each office to the datacenter, where does the IPSec come into play?

So much is wrong here.

That is a funny game to find scary.