Unofficial Spiceworks

Spiceworks mentioned by TechTarget in one of there latest articles….

At the U.K.-based marketing firm HPS Group, IT administrator Andy Phelps turned to the free, ad-supported Spiceworks toolset to track down what had slowed his company’s WAN bandwidth to a crawl.

The culprit: Windows Service Pack 3, which all 15 remote users who were logged into the corporate VPN began downloading simultaneously.

“It’s one of those situations where none of the users knows they are downloading anything, so Spiceworks pointed out that all these machines were installing this software,” Phelps said.

I recognize that name from somewhere… Andy Phelps… OHHH ITS ME akp982 lol

“You walked around the office and saw all the users on Facebook and whatnot,” Phelps said. “But we didn’t see an effect on bandwidth.”

Thank you TechTarget for taking the time to write such a great article

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