The Network Performance Report includes information that can be use to evaluate the performance of your network. Here are some suggestions for using the Network Performance Report:
- The number of routers between your workstation and another workstation can affect the time the packets take to return. When you evaluate the times for a workstation, you should compare them to the times for a workstation in the same area of the network or with the same number of intervening routers.
- If the number of routers is not what you expect, there may be a network issue.
- If the maximum time for a packet to return from a workstation is significantly greater than the times for other workstations in the same area of your network, there may be a workstation issue.
- If a single workstation has many lost packets, there may be a problem with the network connection to that workstation.
- If several workstations in the same area of the network have many lost packets, there may be a network connection issue or an intervening router or bridge issue.