You've gotta be kidding me -- no, I know you aren't. I'm nothing approaching a network admin, and the deductive process and factors you mentioned immediately o

You've gotta be kidding me -- no, I know you aren't. I'm nothing approaching a network admin, and the deductive process and factors you mentioned immediately occurred to me. This reminds me of a (failed) Rational toolset deployment I suffered under some years ago. TPTB decided they were going to support users in India from a U.S. installation. I argued for testing with one or another form of network simulation, but I got nowhere. Sure enough, they deployed, and the thing was unusably slow. The Rational tools involved wanted to touch files and DB (very) repeatedly for each action. Latency killed performance under these circumstances. I guess your story heartens me, a bit. I get to the point of feeling under-experienced particularly as, on paper, I may look under-credentialed. But in practice, as often as not I'm the one posing the difficult and pertinent questions.