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How many web surfers on ISDN/10BaseT ethernet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reference)
Fri Oct 16 20:14:23 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:39:32 -0500
From: Reference <ref@esper.com>
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This may be a question of the angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin type. If you
have experience supporting Internet access to a 10BaseT ethernet NT
network on a 128K ISDN line, please share your war stories with me. Is
there a rule-of-thumb for how many PCs can have web browsing going on at
the same time before the network's response time becomes unacceptable
(say, worse than connecting by 28.8 POTS modem)?
Is there a more or less elegant way to meter access to web browser
software to the majik number of simultaneous users so that our network
doesn't become a collision derby?
What's your favorite ISDN router?
Any other tips or dire warnings you can offer?
* The network will also be supporting a CD-ROM server; some of the CDs
are graphics-intensive (maps) but they won't tend to be used as much as
the primarily bibliographic ones, we think.
* We won't have headphones or speakers at least for awhile, hopefully
discouraging some in the way of the more intense multimedia web traffic.
Please reply to me, and TIA.
Melissa J. Brenneman
Lawson McGhee Library
Knoxville, TN
ref@esper.com
