Wasted Bandwidth?

[kmfna]

Hello all,

We are running a Cisco 1720 and are about to upgrade to a fiber line. Wile looking for a new card (telcove said we had to use an ethernet connection, as opposed to the VDET(?) that we are currently using) I found that the WIC-1ENET is the only ethernet card available and is only good for up to 8 Mbps. The question is, are we going to be wasting money/bandwidth by doing this as opposed to just running a T-3 and not having to go through the time and effort of installing this new card and configuring the ethernet interface? If the decision is to stay with the Fiber line, should we get another router that can handle it? Any reommendations would be helpful.

Thanks,
Kevin

- "The truth hurts, maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with no seat, but it hurts.

 

[ChrisAC]

and is only good for up to 8 Mbps"

10Mbps more like!

"not having to go through the time and effort of installing this new card and configuring the ethernet interface"

How long do you think it takes to screw in a new card and configure it?

What bandwidth are you going to? It all boils down to how much the upgrade will cost and will you actually use this extra bandwidth? If you will then it's worth it. If you don't need any more bandwidth then don't upgrade. You only 'waste money' by buying bandwidth that you do not utilise.

Chris.

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Chris A.C, CCNA, CCSA
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[kmfna]

ok, all good....

10Mbps more like!

I said that the card only handled 8 because that is what the customer service people at cisco told me, though I personally thought that just being a 10base, it should have handled more than that, but I assumed that they knew more than I did.

How long do you think it takes to screw in a new card and configure it?

As far as the time to screw in the new card and configuring it goes, I'm new to the whole card configuration thing, so it would probably take me a lot longer than someone that actually works with hardware on a regular basis.

With respect to the bandwidth, as far as I know they are supposed to give us a full fiber line...not sure exactly what that equates to, since I didn't speak to the rep that came out. Since we are going to be hosting a terminal server based program that hundreds of people will be connecting to, plus the pull from our FTP and web servers, I think that we could probably use almost as much as we could get, but not sure without actually having it to test...though for reference, the software does lag if the user has less than a full T-1 Line, so we are actually outputting a lot of data.

Thanks for your input,
Kevin

- "The truth hurts, maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with no seat, but it hurts.

 

[ChrisAC]

The general rule is to have as much bandwidth as you can afford. You might not always need it but it's nice when it's there

Chris.

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Chris A.C, CCNA, CCSA
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[kmfna]

hahaha....true that, true that.

On a lighter note, I think we have everything figured out, now..so definitely thanks for the help.

Thanks,
Kevin

- "The truth hurts, maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with no seat, but it hurts.