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From: rmcmahon@houvmscc.vnet.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: LAN traffic
Message-ID: <9104232157.AA29513@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 23 Apr 91 21:49:19 GMT
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Does anybody out there have any empirical data or know of
any references containing information on what kind of traffic
can be expected on a small PC lan?  Ball park figures will
be fine.

The LAN configuration that I have in mind is 7 PC's with
1 Server which stores all the applications.  Most of the
applications will run on each PC but the requester RAM
will be loaded over the network.  1 Laser Printer will be
connected to the server.  Finally, the applications will be
word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail ect - nothing to demanding
on the network.

Thanks to anyone who may have such a configuration and have some
empirical numbers.

Bob McMahon
 ** If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving.