I'm not quite sure how to ask this. I've witnessed some dramatic differences in apparant bandwith between my pc and that of some co-workers. The paranoid part of me suspects a throttle has been put in place. Elsewise my pc is sick. It used to be quick. Any way how could one tell?

This could be spyware causing problems. Run AD-aware, SpyBot and About:Buster.

Attached is a cool command line tool to test network speed but you will need two machines to test it.

P.S. this is only if your running a Windows OS.

Check the blinky lights on the back to see if your machine has a 10mb/sec connection instead of the more usual 100mb/sec.

Failing that, if it's running a Microsoft O/S, then replace with Linux.

Cheers

Ok, I remembered something checkable by any smoh. The network gobs maintain a web based database containing the data on all systems connected to the internal net. If there is no record of your system, access to other subnets starts going downhill as more and more routers catch on that your IP addr. is unlisted. Also once unlisted, other sysadmins may grab the IP addr. for reuse. That happened once before.

Guess who's PC had been delisted. Not just the pc but the Ultra60 and the laptop too. The Ultra60 would have been understandable, I've been keeping that noisy bastard shut off, it would have failed to show on the security scans and been delisted.

Lestwise I hope that is the primary reason for my problems.

If you are wondering, my worksite is 1mile square, and last I heard has something over 8000 misc computers scattered amoungst the buildings.