Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Well, I've never had high-speed internet and I get along just fine. My
> NFS server was my IBM 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram and a 10 MB/s ISA card. > Worked just fine. > > What wil the students be doing where they would need more than 10 MB/s > each between them and your server? If its between them and the > internet, how fast is your internet? > > I suppose you don't have to limit each desk to 10 and let them fight > over the 100 MB/s. I suppose it depends on the application and a desire > to avoid a hungry student from bogging down the network. > > Better to throttle the student's desktop than to throttle the student. > :) > > Doug. You realize that a 10 Mbit card has a maximum theoretical transfer rate of 1220 Kilobytes per second... such a speed the ISA bus can't even achieve. Even my home broadband line exceeds those speeds.... ;) Setting workstations to 10Mbit mode is a bad method of bandwidth management.. -Nix Fan. :) -Nix Fan.
