Thanks everyone who replied on and off list. I now have enough data to stop worrying
that i've under
provisioned. Guess i have somewhere to play quake from now. :-)
Await the next installation. Cheers all. :-)
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:54:25 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>If I understand correctly, you don't need to plan bandwidth for
>web browsing, as that goes through the dial-in provider, but
>you do need to plan for smtp bandwidth, as that's in-house?
>
>I'm reading page 33 of the Jan 31, 2000 Netword World magazine,
>which has an article quoting stats from Ferris Research:
>
>User messaging will jump 81% to 34 messages -received- per user per day.
>Message size will jump 192% to 286KB per message.
>
>If you take that at face value, you need to be able to handle
>(286KB * 8) * 34 * 10,000 (or whatever you said), divided by
>36000 seconds in 10 hours, gets you ... 21Kb/sec? Assuming
>every user also sends you that traffic as a smarthost in that
>same time period means you need... 63Kb/sec line?
>
>And you have a 2meg line spec'd currently? :)
>
>This all changes if you need bandwidth for web traffic, of course.
>
>John
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Marek Narkiewicz, Systems Director WelshDragon ltd
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02/03/2000 at 11:18:18
