Chip Anderson

Why our Gigabit Fiber Connection Matters

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In case you missed the announcement, we are now sending our site traffic back across our high-speed gigabit fiber internet connection.  (That connection was damaged 3 weeks ago - more details here.)  We made the switch back onto the fiber connection on Tuesday night.  Up until then, we had been limping along on four older T3 connections.

Below is a graph showing the number of retransmitted data packets that we sent out during this week.

RetransmitsFibervsDS3s

Each peak represents a different day of the week - Monday, Tuesday, etc.  As you can see, the number of retransmits send on Monday and Tuesday was much higher than during the rest of the week.  Vive la Fiber!

Chip Anderson
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