I work in a hospital and we are deploying a new radiology technology that will allow the doctors and xray techs to view xray, catscan, mri, and ultra sound images digitaly instead of using the old xray films that most of us have seen. Here is my problem. All the workstations that are in the radiology wing of the hospital are somewhere in the neighborhood of 220-270ft of ceiling tile away from the closest switch.
When images are attempted to be viewed over the network there is a delay in viewing them on the workstations in the the radiology dept. I captured a bunch of data using ethereal and there was a significant amount of rebroadcast traffic as well as bad checksums in the capture.
Light duty traffic such as web browser and light application work fine. I am thinking the reason is because of the long runs in the cable plant.
The switch is a 24 port cisco 3550 running 100MB full on all ports with about half of them open.
Output of sho proc shows the switch might as well be sleeping. It is idle. Memory utilization on the switch is also low.
Am I on the right path here? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
Thank you for all your help in advance.
Steve Johnson Brooks Memorial Hospital snipped-for-privacy@brookshospital.org