Tell em to quit browsing all that pron then! In a previous life, we had a few 30 user offices with a 256 link back to the main Exch Server and rarely had issues. And we were passing cad files around all day!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Seielstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 8:21 AM Subject: RE: Sync Folders - Small Bandwith > Trust me. 256k isn't enough for our users. It all depends on the > application, and the applications one of these offices support uses a lot of > bandwidth between their clients and the servers in our production data > center. Tack onto that Internet access, mail, and other internal > applications, and 256k disappears quickly. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis Inc. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:55 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Re: Sync Folders - Small Bandwith > > > > > > how can a 256meg pipe be bad? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Roger Seielstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 07:47 > > Subject: RE: Sync Folders - Small Bandwith > > > > > > > Technically, I guess they use more, but I'm not 100% sure. Keep in > > > mind > > that > > > PST's store mail in 2 formats (so 1 message stored twice), > > but I think > > that > > > conversion is done on the client side. > > > > > > I have a number of users using Outlook in offline mode on the wrong > > > end of > > a > > > 256MB pipe that gets shared with lots of other traffic. Outlook, > > especially > > > the newer versions, are fairly stingy with network traffic. > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP > > > Sr. Systems Administrator > > > Inovis Inc. > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:34 AM > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > Subject: Sync Folders - Small Bandwith > > > > > > > > > > > > Recent conversations have caused me to re-think the > > entire Exchange > > > > strategy that is in place here. The biggest bulk of that > > strategy > > > > includes Backups. The new idea is to go with Item > > Retention, this > > > > highlights the issue that most of the people round here have > > > > Personal Folders containing there email, which in turn means that > > > > there is no way they are getting backed up. > > > > > > > > The problem im faced with is that a lot of our sites have > > only a 64k > > > > ISDN link which may be linking 10 people or more! Okay you can > > > > scrutinise me for having such a small link for such an amount of > > > > users, but hey im not going to pay out of my wages for a > > larger link > > > > ;p > > > > > > > > Anyway, this problem means that working directly from the > > Mail Box > > > > is out of the question, the next best thing I guess is > > > > Offline-Folders. Offline-Folders appear to be the perfect the > > > > solution, running a small test over a dial up connection > > you would > > > > think they were the ideal candidate for this situation. > > However, a > > > > colleague informs me that it completely kills the network > > when you > > > > have a few people synchronising folders over an 64k link. > > > > > > > > Do synchronise folders use more bandwidth than your > > average Personal > > > > Folder? Are there any other issues to consider when > > using offline > > > > folders as apposed to personal folders? Im also informed > > that when > > > > you make a new folder in your mail box it is not automatically > > > > synchronised with the server? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please can you give me all your experience and all your info on > > > > working with synchronise folders within a working enterprise. No > > > > matter how irrelevant you think it may seem, I would like to know > > > > exactly what im in for if I move to this solution. > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > > Web Interface: > > > > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > > > ext_mode=&lang=english > > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > Web Interface: > > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > ext_mode=&lang=english > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang > =english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
