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Hi All
I have been put in charge of sorting out our work network. When I joined the company they had very little in the way of a network, just a 16port 10mb switch and an old adsl router. I managed to scrabble together some slightly better kit with my £10 budget lol.
Anyhow, its been fine fora year now, but we are suffering with more and more slow downs and bottlnecks as we add more equipment. We have a new digital solvent printer coming in a few weeks which will further impact network performance.
Now whilst I can put together small networks etc, I am not that experienced with larger networks, bottle neck prevention etc. So I need you gurus to offer some advice.
I will list all the equipment we have at the moment.
Computers
1 x G5 Imac - Artworking machine (10/100/1000)
1 x G4 Power Mac - Artworking Machine (10/100/1000)
1 x Rip Server PC stuffed with RAM - Rips the jobs and send thems to the printers via ethernet (10/100, although I think im gonna get a 1gig card for this)
2 x Imacs - Just used for email and Microsoft office (10/100)
4 x PC - Used for email, accounting, office, cutting vinyl (10/100)
Dell Poweredge Server - Used soley as a fileserver (10/100, although I think im gonna get a 1gig card for this)
Printers
Dell 1700n Networked Laser
Xerox Phaser 6100 - Connected via ethernet to usb print server (10/100)
HP Deskjet 840c - Coneccted via printer server (10/100)
HP DesignJet 5500 - Big beast of a printer, conncected via ethernet (10/100)
Roland Soljet PRO III - Another big beast, connected via ethernet (10/100)
Other Kit
Draytek Vigor 2600+ (10/100)
Some generic rubbish 24 port switch (ebaytastic) (10/100)
God, didnt realise we had that much till I wrote it all down.
So guys, what advice can you offer, do you think I need to worry about backbones etc. I just want to get the most speed out of the network, whilst allowing for future additions.
As for budget, as cheap as possible, looking at it, I dont think much needs replacing except the switch.
Any help/diagrams would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Aaron
I have been put in charge of sorting out our work network. When I joined the company they had very little in the way of a network, just a 16port 10mb switch and an old adsl router. I managed to scrabble together some slightly better kit with my £10 budget lol.
Anyhow, its been fine fora year now, but we are suffering with more and more slow downs and bottlnecks as we add more equipment. We have a new digital solvent printer coming in a few weeks which will further impact network performance.
Now whilst I can put together small networks etc, I am not that experienced with larger networks, bottle neck prevention etc. So I need you gurus to offer some advice.
I will list all the equipment we have at the moment.
Computers
1 x G5 Imac - Artworking machine (10/100/1000)
1 x G4 Power Mac - Artworking Machine (10/100/1000)
1 x Rip Server PC stuffed with RAM - Rips the jobs and send thems to the printers via ethernet (10/100, although I think im gonna get a 1gig card for this)
2 x Imacs - Just used for email and Microsoft office (10/100)
4 x PC - Used for email, accounting, office, cutting vinyl (10/100)
Dell Poweredge Server - Used soley as a fileserver (10/100, although I think im gonna get a 1gig card for this)
Printers
Dell 1700n Networked Laser
Xerox Phaser 6100 - Connected via ethernet to usb print server (10/100)
HP Deskjet 840c - Coneccted via printer server (10/100)
HP DesignJet 5500 - Big beast of a printer, conncected via ethernet (10/100)
Roland Soljet PRO III - Another big beast, connected via ethernet (10/100)
Other Kit
Draytek Vigor 2600+ (10/100)
Some generic rubbish 24 port switch (ebaytastic) (10/100)
God, didnt realise we had that much till I wrote it all down.
So guys, what advice can you offer, do you think I need to worry about backbones etc. I just want to get the most speed out of the network, whilst allowing for future additions.
As for budget, as cheap as possible, looking at it, I dont think much needs replacing except the switch.
Any help/diagrams would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Aaron