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Old 23-May-2006, 21:47
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I have two separate lines at present, both with broadband on.
One has a 2meg link, the other with a 1meg .
I have now changed to a 4.5 meg (fastest I can Get)connection with BT on just the one line.
I really would like to link all systems to the one line, but they are separated by approx 50-60 feet.
I use dual gigabit NIC's,hubs etc in all servers and workstations, in both locations, but so far overall network speed has been disapointing.
Servers are compaq 4 x 8500R's with 8 cpu's and 4gig ram etc, two have 4 nic' fitted, and 2x ML530G2's with high spec .
workstations are evo P4 xeons.
I ,ve messed about with shed loads of configs, but I have the power it seams, but not the bandwith, or morelikely lack of greycells at present, its been a while since I did any networking.
I have some fibre channel and fibre networking kit lying around, but not sure it will be much better than giga ethernet.
Any suggestions on the best way to get maximum speed to bandwith etc over the said distance.
any help gratefully recieved.

cheers
R
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