for 8 stations and 1 server, what's the difference in costs:

hardware upgrade - switch and nic cards - ( is this just plug in, or will there

need to be some reconfiguring?)

are $40 gigabit nic cards acceptable ? and a $150 switch ?

 

software upgrade - Winconnext XP terminial server - is this for +6 stations  ? 

how much for this and is there a per user cost if it's 8 ? 




On Thu Mar 30 10:03 , Peter Machell sent:

On 30/03/2006, at 7:48 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> the original question is, can it be guaranteed that you get a
>> performance
>> improvement by upgrading a network from 100 bit to gigabit,
> nothing is guaranteed. using md2 doesn't sound sensible if you need
> this
> improvement - going to a real program would give you the biggest speed
> improvement

Yes, a guaranteed performance increase by increasing the speed of
your network, unless your server is so slow or you have so many
clients that there is a bottleneck narrower than the network - unlikely.

Bear in mind that by adding PCI gigabit network cards you are
constrained by the PCI bus and they are slower than on-board gigabit
cards.

We usually address this speed problem by installing a dedicated to
MD2 Winconnect XP Terminal Server, which operates at disk speed -
many times faster than a gigabit networked client / server operation.

cheers,
Peter.
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