FIRST LAN SETUP

[scoobydoo26]

I will be setting up the LAN for the office in our new location. Cabling is being done with Cat5E cables...terminated at either side of the building. A fiber backbone will be run to connect two sides via switches to be purchased. Current hubs (16 port) will be stacked on top of the switches. Any suggestions ?

 

[Guest_imported]

Replace the 16-port hubs with one managed switch...they will hinder your performance considerably.

 

[jimbopalmer]

If you must retain the hubs for political reasons, hook network printers and plotters up to them.

 

[scoobydoo26]

i may need to keep the hubs though i'm pushing the switches. The way it's looking now is i'll be placing a switch on either side of the suite. One switch will have the servers, two printers and users on that side. The other switch will have two printers and the users on the side of the suite. The one switch will uplink to the other via copper run (35 m). Only concern is traffic going to the server via copper (though only 13 users max). As long as a switch is being used there shouldn't be much of a bottleneck accessing the servers ?

thanks

 

[jimbopalmer]

be sure both the switch and the server beleive you have a 100 meg Full duplex connection and you are fine.

solaris will announce it in the boot sequence, Adaptor Properties will have it in a PC.