Analyzing HTTP problems
The bottom line is, of course, how to analyze the HTTP problems. This is what this recipe is all about. HTTP problems can happen because of a slow server and/or client, TCP performance issues, and some other reasons that we will see in this recipe.
Getting ready
When you experience bad performance while browsing the Internet, connect the Wireshark with port mirror to the PC that experiences the problem. When it is the whole network that suffers from bad performance, port-mirror the main connection to the Internet or the web server infrastructure.
How to do it...
There can be various reasons for a slow browsing problem, and we'll try to figure it out step-by-step.
The steps are given as follows:
- First, check that you don't simply have a loaded line to the Internet or core connections in the network, high error rate on the communications line, or any of these obvious issues that cause most of the problems (see Chapter 5, Using Basic Statistics Tools chapter and Chapter 6...
