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  3. February 2004

RE: Max Devices on ethernet adapters

Yeah Larry, you're right.

I went back over what I'd been thinking, particularly the printer
throughput, and realized (as you say) that what I was suggesting was
overkill, and overly expensive.

Thanks for the correction.

Andy

> Andy,
> 
>   FOr 80 PCs, dual GbE adaptors are overkill. I like duals but GbE units
> require dedicated IOPs adding even more cost. I have customers with i825
> and heavy SQL loads that don't tax a 100 Mb card.  I would Certainly do
> Dual 100Mb cards before I did a single GbE card.  Even the printers
> aren't really gonna put a hurt on the network.
> 
>   - Larry

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