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Article #159Re: Access speed.
From: sol... Marcin Soltysiak
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00
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>a. Increase the RAM of the server to > 64 MB; >b. increase the number of cards on the > server, to further distribute traffic; >c. install Windows 3.1 on each station > (very costly because we will have to > buy a hard drive for each station). > None of above :-)))) The best way, Ibelive, is to buy Fast Ethernet Card (100 MBits/s), then buy Link Switch (i.e. LinkSw1000 from 3Com) and divide 35 stations to 5 separate segments a 5 stations each.This way you get 5 segments a 20 MBits/s each (100MBits/s : 5 = 20). The link switch lets you distribute server performance among each segment in an intelligent way. M.S
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From: sol...@novci2.ae.poz.edu.pl (Marcin Soltysiak) Subject: Re: Access speed. Date: 1996/01/02 Message-ID: <4cbagd$p2e@math.amu.edu.pl> X-Deja-AN: 133747954 references: <4c1cqo$46r@ionews.io.org> organization: Centrum Informatyki AE Poznan newsgroups: pl.comp.sys.novell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit