10/100 Ethernet hubs
10/100 Ethernet hubs
(OP)
Hello anyone,
We are looking into the purchase of a new hub in the office. It's for about 24-30 machines, all running Windows 95, with an NT Server. We have a UNIX server which deals with our accounts package which also stores all of our sales data. These would be on the same LAN. The LAN is currently running at 10Mbps.
Any information about 3Com Hubs that run at both 10 and 100Mbps would be good, as we could not buy enough cards at the same time to buy a straight 100MBps hub. Is the performance going to warraent the cost?
Thanks, Euan.
We are looking into the purchase of a new hub in the office. It's for about 24-30 machines, all running Windows 95, with an NT Server. We have a UNIX server which deals with our accounts package which also stores all of our sales data. These would be on the same LAN. The LAN is currently running at 10Mbps.
Any information about 3Com Hubs that run at both 10 and 100Mbps would be good, as we could not buy enough cards at the same time to buy a straight 100MBps hub. Is the performance going to warraent the cost?
Thanks, Euan.
RE: 10/100 Ethernet hubs
30 people/2 * 10 dollars/60 minutes * 2 minutes/day * 5 days/week * 50 work weeks/year = $1250 savings/year
We have to remember that people costs are the big expenses while computer expenses that increase user effectiveness are relatively small in comparison. To reduce response time from 5 secs to 1/2 sec is not just 10x faster, but the user is likely to be 15-20x more productive because of the reduced response time.
RE: 10/100 Ethernet hubs
Mike