I've tried to get replication up and running for a few weeks now but I'm starting to loose my patience. I have two WDS-servers with rought 1TB of data that I want replicated from the main office to branch offices (currently one branch). It generally works great with test files (10mb files, text-files etc), but when it comes to bigger files, it just doesn't seem to do it.
The folder I replicate is \Remoteinstall\Images, and all files will replicate, except the .RWM files that are of size 20GB and up each. Acording to "dfsrdiag replicationstate" it is downloading files, but with my latest test (see below) I only replicate a folder which is 18GB in size. With my bandwidth schedule limited to 16Mbps/minut I get the behaiviour below, which is downloading @ around 15Mbps for a few seconds (~3), then taking a pause roughly double in length. This gives me an effective bandwith ~5Mbps. I calculated that at an effective rate @ 5Mbps, I should have the 18GB file replicated roughly in 8 hours. However, after 2 days (48 hours), the still isn't replicated!
My staging folder size is set to 2TB and the cpu-usage on the server is low. RDC-compression is on. Acording to your experiences, is this 1/3 effective bandwidth normal? What am I doing wrong?