Question

Users report that a cloud-hosted application "feels slow" during the afternoon but works fine in the morning. You run a continuous ping to the application's gateway and see round-trip times of 4 ms in the morning but 180 ms in the afternoon, with no dropped packets. CPU and memory on the affected switches are normal. Which conclusion is best supported by these results?

Accepted Answer

The link is experiencing increased latency, likely from bandwidth saturation during peak afternoon usage

Answer

Packet loss is causing the slowdown and a cable should be replaced

Answer

A duplex mismatch on the switch port is generating CRC errors

Answer

DNS resolution is failing intermittently in the afternoon