Your professional opions please?

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I have my own opinions, but I've been known to be wrong. Just looking for some thumbs up or thumbs down with reasons from the forum gods.....

Datacenter is a 100Mbps fiber connection (not 1Gbps because of cost)across a few miles to 230+ users for filesharing, AD logon, print servers, email servers, basically all back end stuff.

That's way too slow, correct? It should be at least 1Gbps or get some servers at the user location IMO.

What yall think?

Also, would NIC teaming a fileserver have any benefits to speed here? I'm thinking minimal. But I would get some link redundancy. Probably will do it anyway just because,BUT I am wondering if there is any NOTICEABLE speed
boost.

What yall think?


THANKS!!!

 

[DallasBPF]

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Dallas, Texas
Telecommunications Tech
CCVP, CCNA, Net+

CCNP in the works

 

[DallasBPF]

Sorry... Had to put it... but seriously, you are fine at 100Mbps for that, our company is around 1000+ employees and we have a T3 coming out of our DataCenter and it works perfectly fine and it is set to 20Mbps with burstable to the 45Mbps.

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Dallas, Texas
Telecommunications Tech
CCVP, CCNA, Net+

CCNP in the works

 

[lerdalt]

Dallas is right, you should be fine. I've had groups like that running across an 11Mbps wireless connection and worked fine for years.

But, if you are worried about it, talk to the users and see what their experiences are, look at a ping plotter type application that could give you some statistics on round trip times, or one of my new favorites is iperf to see what actual throughput is.

 

[burtsbees]

Is the interface throttled at 100% at any time, for a significant amount of time?

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[vipergg]

100 meg is a lot more bandwidth than you think . it takes quite bit to fill a 100 meg full duplex pipe. Unless they are doing server backups across that link it should be ok for what you describe. What do the links look like during the busy part of the day ?

 

[ATCal]

IMHO the answer here relies on what the users are doing, and what the expectations are. As the others have mentioned most places would kill for a 100mbps WAN connection. That said however, if you have 230 users saturating their own 10/100 port to their local switch, and then contending for the same 100 mbps connection back to the core, then technically yes you could introduce some latency.
Would be interested in knowing if this is a routed connection or just a layer 2 extension? Depending on the answer there are many ways to "optimize" without throwing more bandwidth.

Al

 

[burtsbees]

Dallas---what does that average per download?

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Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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