When I allow Loadrunner to throttle the network speed during a scenario (i.e. 10 Mb Ethernet), the transaction response time seems horribly inaccurate (15-20) seconds. Browsing from an external machine manually with a 10Mb connection while the scenario is running has a transaction response time of 1-2 seconds.
I have tried this scenario from our internal servers by hitting Google. With throttling on, I am getting 8-10 sec response times. I turn throttling off and I get <1 second.
Our network and content is not the issue.
I then used a third party tool to manually throttle the bandwidth on each load generator. When throttled to 10 Mb ethernet, a slight bump in response time occurs, but nothing to the magnitude that loadrunner is reporting when it throttles.
I have tried running as a process. I have tried running as a thread.
I am on LR 11.52.
Is there anything else I can try?