[AccessD] Weakest Link

I have a client running about 25 Access FEs against an MDB BE.  He has a
single server, and of course must use a single server at least for the BE if
we don't get into replication.  The server is Windows NT, not even 2K.  He
just expanded into another wing of the building they rent and are going to
move one unit of the business (and database) into that wing.  Can he run
multiple NICS in Windows NT?  That would allow him to put a switch (or
router) on what would essentially be two different LANs.  They don't really
have any inter workstation traffic so this would probably work if NT can
deal with more than one NIC.  I know that they have (or had) bandwidth
issues because when they replaced a hub with a switch awhile back the
performance of the db improved.

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Erwin Craps
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 3:36 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: Wireless network (sort of)


The weakest link in a network will decide the bandwith.

If you only have one server all trafic goes to and comes from one link.
If that link is the same speed as the clients link a switch is of no
use. You gonna have a bottleneck.

Again, switch are very good but you must have a different server speed
link OR multiple servers. By that your bandwith gets divided over
multiple or higer speed links.

Switches are useles (for reaons of speed) in a single server and only 1
speed link.

It's a basic rule of a switch!!!

Erwin