Here's Where I Would Start

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

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I certainly haven't experienced the same connectivity/bandwidth utilization issues that you have seen, but if I were faced with this situation and the information that the ISP is giving you, this is how I would start.

First, look at the bandwidth utilization on the Domino Server; look at how much of the server's network connection is being used. How does this compare to what the ISP is telling you when you match up Mbps (not percent utilization)?

Second, are both the Notes client and Domino Server(s) network config set to compress data? As an aside, what version Notes and Domino are we talking about?

Third, given that going into island mode at the Notes client reduces network connectivity (as one would expect) but that using a local replica has the same impact as using a server replica, check out what the Notes client is actually doing. What databases are local that are being replicated? And take a look at the replication behavior of the Notes client. I would be suspicious of something on the Notes client that is replicating too much data too often. There could be lots of reasons for this, but you should be able to narrow what what (if anything) is contributing to this by evaluating the Notes client log for replication events. There may be databases that are being updated too often and replicated too often, causing the Notes client to be constantly busy replicating with the Domino Server.

This doesn't really sound like an issue with what the user is doing with your Domino Server(s) but rather an issue with inefficient or continuous replication by the Notes client with the Domino Server(s).

Feedback response number WEBB86VQ74 created by ~Andy Zekponecheklen on 06/29/2010