Ping times for Digiweb Satellite BB?

Zenith74

Hey,

We have Digiweb Satellite BB in a place in Spiddal and are trying to do MS SQL synchronisations across a VPN with a couple of offices around Ireland. For some reason the main SQL server in Galway is constantly losing connection with the others and I'm wondering has it anything to do with these erratic ping times? Are these ping times to boards.ie typical of SatelliteBB?

Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=2515ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=922ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1766ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1062ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1407ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=922ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1516ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=953ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=2406ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=922ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1875ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=2204ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1062ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1078ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1125ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=2375ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=984ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1094ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1062ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=2344ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1047ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=2218ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=1016ms TTL=49
Reply from 82.195.131.130: bytes=32 time=969ms TTL=49


Thanks guys,
Philip

Sponge Bob

Those ping times are very acceptable for VSAT. Ensure that all your ODBC type connections have their timeouts increased accordingly.

ZeRoY

http://broadband.digiweb.ie/overview.asp :

Not Suited To :

* Web Hosting (free hosting provided)
* Certain VPN's (enquire for info)
* Online Gaming (due to latency)

Zenith74

I know they're not great for VPNs but we're not trying to achieve anything miraculous over it, plus the options for Spiddal are dialup, ISDN or Satellite .

Sponge Bob - You coudln't point me in the right direction for these timeouts could you? I'm not an SQL head so there's a lot of guess work going on . It's actually in the Enterprise Manager, every now and then I'll ask the Galway server to "connect" to one of the others and it will work, other times it won't. Is there a timeout for this communication specifically?

Thanks very much!

Sponge Bob

ODBC Control Panel usually and there is something in the MS SQL connector setup as well.

Also check the MS knowledge base and remember that the timeouts are similar (if worse) to connecting over Analogue Dial Up .

Also check your PMs

Zenith74

Thanks, found it! Enterprise Manager > Options > Advanced > Login Timeout. Upped it from 4 seconds to 8 and all is good now .

Thanks again