We have 70-80 users here. For our net connection, we're running a fractional T1, 256K. In terms of what comes in and out of the building, we have email, of course. Users are allowed to surf the Internet. We have a few tiny services that run that are allowed from the outside, such as a website and a Citrix box.
In trying to download files, service patches, whatever, I noticed that our downloads are all pretty slow. The obvious answer is to get more bandwidth. But I did a spam count recently to check to see how much we're getting. In a day and a half we captured 2,856 spam items, and that's just the spam that was caught. I'm sure there was some that wasn't caught. I know we're getting much more spam then legitimate emails with the low number of users we have. I don't know much about how email is delivered, how long it takes, etc. But can all this spam really be hurting our net connection?
