[mdlug] Maxing out on 10/100 LAN

[Robert Adkins II]

We do a great of CAD/CAM work and the files that we are receiving as well as
the resulting work files has been creeping up in the size over the past 10
years.

It's not uncommon to have multiple operators hitting 20MB to 250+MB files
simultaneously.

Sometimes, the operators are complaining about the speed of file access,
etc., etc.

I want to speed that up a little.

Of course, I will need to do some testing to verify that they are saturating
the link.

Regards,
Robert Adkins 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Pritts
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 9:37 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Maxing out on 10/100 LAN
> 
> assuming you are talking about general file service with 
> moderate to large files, samba/smb chattiness is probably 
> your limiting factor.
> 
> but make sure you are saturating the LAN before worrying 
> about upgrading it.
> 
> I assume you have simultaneous active clients (if not, why 
> worry about multiple interfaces?).  If so, you may see some 
> improvement with a simple upgrade to a 10/100 switch with a 
> couple 1G uplink ports, and put your server on 1G with a 
> decent ethernet card.
> 
> 
> Robert Adkins II wrote:
> > That is along the lines I was thinking, unfortunately, to go to GB 
> > ethernet, I do believe that I will need to rewire the whole 
> building 
> > and I am unsure if that will really fundamentally change 
> performance 
> > across the whole network. I certainly would need to acquire 
> almost 30 
> > Gigabyte Ethernet cards.
> >
> > Perhaps I will dig around and setup samba to serve the same 
> shares all 
> > off a series of network interfaces.
> >
> > Thanks.
> 
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