On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Szabף Tamבs wrote: > Ok. > > > It is necessary to know more details. > > What speeds? > > It will be good to have 100Mbit/s. > > > What architecture? > > What distances? > > Etc... > > There are more then ten bulidings. In one of them will be at least 30 > PC's in the another between 10 and 20. > The other buildings will have one or two PC's. The distances between > adjacent buildings are 15, 20 max 30 meters. > > Would be the network very loaded, for 50, 60 PC's, if they all will be > on the same network? I mean UTP with many switches. I was thinking about > making subnets and using routers between them to divide the traffic, but > Cisco routers are found expensive and using computers for routing is > said to be not reliable enough(the hardware) by the owner.
Keep in mind that there are generally two kinds of switches: - unmanaged switches, which simply serve as "multiple briges" - managed switches, which generally cost much more, but have many features that you can't easily live without, as a network admin. Keep that in mind when comparing prices. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
