So I guess what I am hearing is that I should replace the hubs I still have
and then the gremlins may go away? The office with the apparent distance
problem and the internet connection are both on the same switch. Is it
possible that the traffic on the hub is slowing everything down? I do
have to keep at least one hub, since that is where the DTCs hook into.
And yes, I am working toward replacing the DTCs as well, but I have
a bunch of printers to replace and a remote site connection over a mux
to resolve before that can happen. I can get most everything else off the
hub.

So I'm also hearing nothing about my suggestion of putting a switch halfway
and plugging the other side of the office into that. Is that under the
heading
of unnecessary?
            Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wonsil" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "'Tom Hula'" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] OT: Lack of Network Performance


>>>> This is a fast Ethernet peer-to-peer network (supposedly ... the
>>>> indicators on the switches and hubs all say that 100 Mbs is
>>>> active, anyway). One thing I could do is install a switch part ways
>>>> out to the other half of the building and have all the lines connect
>>>> there to boost the signal? Will that work? I've also heard of
>>>> repeaters to boost the signal.
>
> Tom,
>
> I don't know how old your hubs are but I recently started replacing hubs
> with unmanaged switches (literally plug and play - no tables to maintain)
> and that really cuts down on the collisions.  They have come down in price
> too (@ $125 for a 24 port duplex 100MB switch for units from Linksys/Cisco
> or SMC.  I'm sure HP has an equivalent too.)  It has made a large
> improvement at the school when the computer lab is in full swing.  The
> teacher can monitor the students' screens and that generates a lot of
> traffic.  Having the full-duplex helps in some applications too.  The nice
> thing is you don't have to do it all at once.  I would start with your
> Internet access point and then move out to the problem areas - keep users
> who do heavy transfers on one switch if possible for example.
>
> Mark W.
>

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